For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

We must become the people we want our children to be.

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Any representation of God produces accordingly.

We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.