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A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action -- M. Scott Peck
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I have defined love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truly loves does so because of a decision to love. -- M. Scott Peck
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It is in the giving up of self that human beings can find the most ecstatic and lasting, solid, durable joy of life. And it is death that provides life with all its meaning. This "secret" is the central wisdom of religion. The process of giving up the self (which is -- M. Scott Peck
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But when it comes to questions of meaning, purpose, and death, secondhand information will not do. I cannot survive on a secondhand faith in a secondhand God. There has to be a personal word, a unique confrontation, if I am to come alive.25 -- M. Scott Peck
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Do what you feel called to do, but also be prepared to accept that you don't necessarily know what you're going to learn. Be willing to be surprised by forces beyond your control, and realize that a major learning on the journey is the art of surrender. -- M. Scott Peck
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To the child, abandonment by its parents is the equivalent of death. -- M. Scott Peck
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Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures. -- M. Scott Peck
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Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. -- M. Scott Peck
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If someone is determined not to risk pain, then such a person must do without many things: [ ... ] - all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant. -- M. Scott Peck
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Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. They hate goodness because it reveals their badness; they hate love because it reveals their laziness. They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of such self-awareness. -- M. Scott Peck
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For the most part, mental illness is caused by an absence of or defect in the love that a particular child required from its particular parents for successful maturation and spiritual growth. It -- M. Scott Peck
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I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar. -- M. Scott Peck
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As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems. -- M. Scott Peck
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Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct. -- M. Scott Peck
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I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. -- M. Scott Peck
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The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people. -- M. Scott Peck
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When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted as to be virtually nonexistent, and the organization becomes inherently evil. -- M. Scott Peck
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If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out? -- M. Scott Peck
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There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions. -- M. Scott Peck
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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences. -- M. Scott Peck
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As I have defined it, love is the antithesis of laziness. Ordinary laziness is a passive failure to love. Some ordinarily lazy people may not lift a finger to extend themselves unless they are compelled to do so. Their being is a manifestation of nonlove; still, they are not evil. -- M. Scott Peck
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Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth ... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will
namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. -- M. Scott Peck
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Love is not simply giving; it is judicious giving and judicious withholding as well. It is judicious praising and judicious criticizing. It is judicious arguing, struggling, confronting, urging, pushing and pulling in addition to comforting. It is leadership. -- M. Scott Peck
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When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity. -- M. Scott Peck
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Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other. -- M. Scott Peck
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. -- M. Scott Peck
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In and through community lies the salvation of the world. -- M. Scott Peck
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To heal your body, you must first heal your spirit. -- M. Scott Peck
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Or even when we determine that people are truly intending to encroach on us, we may realize that, for one reason or another, it is not in our best interests to respond to that imposition with anger. -- M. Scott Peck
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You are a beautiful and beloved individual. It is good to be you. We will love you no matter what you do, as long as you are you. -- M. Scott Peck
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Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom. -- M. Scott Peck
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Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words. -- M. Scott Peck
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A full life will be full of pain. But the only alternative is not to live fully or not to live at all. -- M. Scott Peck
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Or some people may yearn for riches, not for money's sake but in order to send their children to college or provide themselves with the freedom and time for study and reflection which are necessary for their own spiritual growth. It is not power or money that such people love; it is humanity. -- M. Scott Peck
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An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. -- M. Scott Peck
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The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth. -- M. Scott Peck
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Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved. -- M. Scott Peck
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them. -- M. Scott Peck
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them. -- M. Scott Peck
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I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers. -- M. Scott Peck
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America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification. -- M. Scott Peck
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Similarly, loving spouses must repeatedly confront each other if the marriage relationship is to serve the function of promoting the spiritual growth of the partners. No marriage can be judged truly successful unless husband and wife are each other's best critics. -- M. Scott Peck
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My time was my responsibility. It was up to me and me alone to decide how I wanted to use and order my time. -- M. Scott Peck
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Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture -- M. Scott Peck
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Laziness is love's opposite. -- M. Scott Peck
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The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline. -- M. Scott Peck
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Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them. -- M. Scott Peck
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The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth. -- M. Scott Peck
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The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity. -- M. Scott Peck
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We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for us. I can solve a problem only when I say, "This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it." -- M. Scott Peck
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When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful. -- M. Scott Peck
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If you work long enough and hard enough to understand yourself, you will come to discover that this vast part of your mind, of which you now have little awareness, contains riches beyond imagination. -- M. Scott Peck
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It has been further suggested that the absence of love is the major cause of mental illness and that the presence of love is consequently the essential healing element in psychotherapy. This -- M. Scott Peck
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Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves. -- M. Scott Peck
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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. -- M. Scott Peck
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The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. -- M. Scott Peck
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There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering. -- M. Scott Peck
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Yet even more important than role modeling is love. -- M. Scott Peck
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Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember. -- M. Scott Peck
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As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant. -- M. Scott Peck
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An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving. -- M. Scott Peck
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We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused. -- M. Scott Peck
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The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring. -- M. Scott Peck
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But while all fear is not laziness, much fear is exactly that. Much of our fear is fear of a change in the status quo, a fear that we might lose what we have if we venture forth from where we are now. In the section on discipline I spoke of the fact -- M. Scott Peck
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God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern. -- M. Scott Peck
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Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live. -- M. Scott Peck
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Ultimately love is everything. -- M. Scott Peck
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If there were but one thing I could hope for from the reader of the remainder of this book, it would be that he or she possesses the capacity to perceive the miraculous. -- M. Scott Peck
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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. -- M. Scott Peck
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For any single thing of importance, there are multiple reasons. -- M. Scott Peck
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Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be the more you will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn. -- M. Scott Peck
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I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God." -- M. Scott Peck
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It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings -- M. Scott Peck
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The times have changed. To move with them I had to give it up. I do not miss it. I thought I would, but I don't. -- M. Scott Peck
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. -- M. Scott Peck
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I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres of influence. -- M. Scott Peck
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Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call. -- M. Scott Peck
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Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most. -- M. Scott Peck
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. -- M. Scott Peck
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Another characteristic of human nature - perhaps the one that makes us most human - is our capacity to do the unnatural, to transcend and hence transform our own nature. -- M. Scott Peck
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Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable. -- M. Scott Peck
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Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley. -- M. Scott Peck
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It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action. -- M. Scott Peck
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If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions. -- M. Scott Peck
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With total discipline we can solve all problems. -- M. Scott Peck
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Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs -- M. Scott Peck
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The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world. -- M. Scott Peck
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Transference is that set of ways of perceiving and responding to the world which is developed in childhood and which is usually entirely appropriate to the childhood environment (indeed, often life-saving) but which is inappropriately transferred into the adult environment. -- M. Scott Peck
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Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process. -- M. Scott Peck
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All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up
that growing is an ever ongoing process. -- M. Scott Peck
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Third, this unitary definition of love includes self-love with love for the other. Since I am human and you are human, to love humans means to love myself as well as you. -- M. Scott Peck
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Those things that hurt, instruct. -- M. Scott Peck
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If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer. -- M. Scott Peck
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But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy. -- M. Scott Peck
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To nourish the spirit the body must also be nourished. -- M. Scott Peck
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All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach. -- M. Scott Peck
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What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy. -- M. Scott Peck
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From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything. -- M. Scott Peck
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The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles ... these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life. -- M. Scott Peck
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Learning from their children is the best opportunity most people have to assure themselves of a meaningful old age. Sadly, most do not take this opportunity. -- M. Scott Peck
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Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques
actually defensive bastions against community. -- M. Scott Peck
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Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. This -- M. Scott Peck
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace -- M. Scott Peck
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There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived. -- M. Scott Peck
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If being loved is your goal, you will fail to achieve it. The only way to be assured of being loved is to be a person worthy of love, and -- M. Scott Peck
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You must have something in order to give it up. -- M. Scott Peck
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He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. -- M. Scott Peck
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By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening ... True listening is love in action. -- M. Scott Peck
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I thank them for the same service. -- M. Scott Peck
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no problem can be solved until an individual assumes the responsibility for solving it. -- M. Scott Peck
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For godhood and the hope for mankind, and within each of us is the original sin of laziness, the ever-present force of entropy pushing us back to childhood, to the womb and to the swamps from which we have evolved. -- M. Scott Peck
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ascertain, Jersey had no knowledge of demonology. At this point, all I could do was tell her and her family that I was very uncertain about the case, and that, after I got home, I would be -- M. Scott Peck
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the healthy self, however, must always be vigilant against the laziness of the sick self that still lurks within us. -- M. Scott Peck
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We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence. -- M. Scott Peck
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I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic. -- M. Scott Peck
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And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy. -- M. Scott Peck
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Scientists have grave difficulty dealing with the reality of God. -- M. Scott Peck
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But the fact of the matter is that everyone has an explicit or implicit set of ideas and beliefs as to the essential nature of the world. -- M. Scott Peck
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Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well. -- M. Scott Peck
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In any case, when we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. It is for this reason that in chronic mental illness we stop growing, we become stuck. And without healing, the human spirit begins to shrivel. -- M. Scott Peck
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Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost. -- M. Scott Peck
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Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection. -- M. Scott Peck
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It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets. -- M. Scott Peck
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True listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self. -- M. Scott Peck
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Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there. -- M. Scott Peck
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True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision. -- M. Scott Peck
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Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious. -- M. Scott Peck
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Life is difficult. -- M. Scott Peck
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When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. -- M. Scott Peck
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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom. -- M. Scott Peck
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Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness. -- M. Scott Peck
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Integrity is never painless. -- M. Scott Peck
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I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked tail than God has a long white beard. Even the name, Satan, is just a name we have given to something basically nameless. -- M. Scott Peck
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If I truly love another, I will obviously order my behavior in such a way as to contribute the utmost to his or her spiritual growth. -- M. Scott Peck
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Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? -- M. Scott Peck
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If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem. -- M. Scott Peck
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Through grace we are helped not to stumble and through grace we know that we are being welcomed. What more can we ask? -- M. Scott Peck
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Balancing is a discipline precisely because the act of giving something up is painful. -- M. Scott Peck
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If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating. -- M. Scott Peck
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Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship. -- M. Scott Peck
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Moreover, the genuine lover always respects and even encourages this separateness and the unique individuality of the beloved. Failure to perceive and respect this separateness is extremely common, however, and the cause of much mental illness and unnecessary suffering. -- M. Scott Peck
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The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with a character disorder not enough. -- M. Scott Peck
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Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be full of pain. -- M. Scott Peck
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The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort. -- M. Scott Peck
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The neophyte scientist, recently come or converted to the world view of science, can be every bit as fanatical as a Christian crusader or a soldier of Allah. -- M. Scott Peck
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If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. -- M. Scott Peck
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The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another. -- M. Scott Peck
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Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within. -- M. Scott Peck
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When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it ... -- M. Scott Peck
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It may sound strange to laymen, but psychotherapists are familiar with the fact that people are routinely terrified by mental health. -- M. Scott Peck
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Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly. -- M. Scott Peck
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Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. -- M. Scott Peck
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Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths-it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it. -- M. Scott Peck
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When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow. -- M. Scott Peck
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I find the average quality of present parenting appallingly poor, I have every reason to believe it far superior to that of just a few generations back. A -- M. Scott Peck
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Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person. -- M. Scott Peck
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I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing. -- M. Scott Peck
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Any genuinely loving relationship is one of mutual psychotherapy. -- M. Scott Peck
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But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18. -- M. Scott Peck
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The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution. -- M. Scott Peck
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Many addictions can be far more dangerous than addiction to drugs. The addiction to power ... -- M. Scott Peck
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A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light. -- M. Scott Peck
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We live our lives in the eye of God, and not at the periphery but at the center of His vision, His concern. -- M. Scott Peck
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. -- M. Scott Peck
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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. -- M. Scott Peck
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Many scientists simply do not look at the evidence of the reality of God. -- M. Scott Peck
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Indeed, if one can say that one has built genuinely loving relationships with a spouse and children, then one has already succeeded in accomplishing more than most people accomplish in a lifetime. -- M. Scott Peck
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When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary. -- M. Scott Peck
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When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word ... "glory." -- M. Scott Peck
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Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone. -- M. Scott Peck
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Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth. -- M. Scott Peck
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The healing of the spirit has not been completed until openness to challenge becomes a way of life. -- M. Scott Peck
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Teach us to number our days aright. -- M. Scott Peck
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. -- M. Scott Peck
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We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength. -- M. Scott Peck
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Self-discipline is self-caring. -- M. Scott Peck
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Whatever action we take may influence the course of civilization. -- M. Scott Peck
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The group made the salesman aware in no uncertain terms that his tendency to avoid problem-solving by ignoring a problem in the hope that it would go away was in itself his major problem. -- M. Scott Peck
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A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged. -- M. Scott Peck
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Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up. -- M. Scott Peck
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The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action. -- M. Scott Peck
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The path to holiness lies through questioning everything. -- M. Scott Peck
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We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived. -- M. Scott Peck
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It is God who is the source of the evolutionary force and God who is the destination ... the ultimate goal of spiritual growth is for the individual to become one with God. -- M. Scott Peck
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We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health. -- M. Scott Peck
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Love always requires courage and involves risk. -- M. Scott Peck
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. -- M. Scott Peck
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The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance. -- M. Scott Peck
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It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. -- M. Scott Peck
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The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive. One -- M. Scott Peck
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I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences. -- M. Scott Peck
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We are almost always less or more competent than we believe ourselves to be. The unconscious,however, knows who we really are. -- M. Scott Peck
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If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything. -- M. Scott Peck
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...truth is reality -- M. Scott Peck
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Mental Health is dedication to reality at all costs. -- M. Scott Peck
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We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness. -- M. Scott Peck
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Extension of ourselves or moving out against the inertia of laziness we call work. Moving out in the face of fear we call courage. -- M. Scott Peck
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Even when we truly understand these matters, the journey of spiritual growth is still so lonely and difficult that we often become discouraged. -- M. Scott Peck
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The third tool of discipline or technique of dealing with the pain of problem-solving, which must continually be employed if our lives are to be healthy and our spirits are to grow, is dedication to the truth. -- M. Scott Peck
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The idea that God is actively nurturing us so that we might grow up to be like Him brings us face to face with our own laziness. -- M. Scott Peck
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Necrophilia to include the desire of certain people to control others - to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for themselves, to diminish their unpredictability and originality, to keep them in line. -- M. Scott Peck
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And I know that I and anyone else who is not mentally defective can solve any problem if we are willing to take the time. -- M. Scott Peck
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Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom -- M. Scott Peck
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The fact of the matter is that our unconscious is wiser than we are about everything. -- M. Scott Peck
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. -- M. Scott Peck
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Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom. -- M. Scott Peck
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God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution. -- M. Scott Peck