If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be… — 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
“Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic… — 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
