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 Copy Share Image
Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.” — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness,… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness,… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss.… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
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… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“The person with a secular mentality feels himself to be the center of the universe. Yet he is likely to suffer from… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share
As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share
“The second most common misconception about love is the idea that dependency is love...Its effect is seen most dramatically in an individual who makes… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share
Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share
I've gone to great lengths not to be a guru. I think the notion of guruhood is utterly pathological, and I couldn't live that… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share
Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share
“It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.” — M. Scott Peck Copy Share
Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share
There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share
To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share
