You Can't Teach Children To Be Good.

The Good Enough Mother, Owing To Her Deep Empathy With Her Infant, Reflects In Her Face His Feelings; This Is Why He Sees Himselfin Her Face As If In A Mirror And Finds Himself As He Sees Himself In Her. The Not Good Enough Mother Fails To Reflect The Infant's Feelings In Her Face Because She Is Too Preoccupied With Her Own Concerns, Such As Her Worries Over Whether She Is Doing Right By Her Child, Her Anxiety That She Might Fail Him.

If We Hope To Live Not Just From Moment To Moment, But In True Consciousness Of Our Existence, Then Our Greatest Need And Most Difficult Achievement Is To Find Meaning In Our Lives.

Television Captures The Mind But Does Not Liberate It. A Good Book At Once Stimulates And Frees The Mind.

To Be Told That Our Child's Behavior Is "normal" Offers Little Solace When Our Feelings Are Badly Hurt, Or When We Worry That Hisactions Are Harmful At The Moment Or May Be Injurious To His Future. It Does Not Help Me As A Parent Nor Lessen My Worries When My Child Drives Carelessly, Even Dangerously, If I Am Told That This Is "normal" Behavior For Children Of His Age. I'd Much Prefer Him To Deviate From The Norm And Be A Cautious Driver!

The Unrealistic Nature Of These Tales (which Narrowminded Rationalists Object To) Is An Important Device, Because It Makes Obvious That The Fairy Tales’ Concern Is Not Useful Information About The External World, But The Inner Process Taking Place In An Individual.