America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification. — M. Scott Peck America Copy Share Image
If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths-it is a great truth because once we see this… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There's some evidence that you can have both. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Extension of ourselves or moving out against the inertia of laziness we call work. Moving out in the face of fear we… — M. Scott Peck Courage Copy Share Image
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived. — M. Scott Peck Anger Copy Share Image
But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist… — M. Scott Peck Age Copy Share Image
The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each… — 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
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather… — M. Scott Peck Bias Copy Share Image
What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent… — M. Scott Peck Dedication 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
Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“ascertain, Jersey had no knowledge of demonology. At this point, all I could do was tell her and her family that I… — M. Scott Peck Family Copy Share Image
I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves… — M. Scott Peck Atheism 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
Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our… — 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 Center of the universe Copy Share Image
“Truth or reality is avoided when it is painful. We can revise our maps only when we have the discipline to overcome… — M. Scott Peck Discipline Copy Share Image
“I feel compelled to make another 'nonapology.' Many readers are likely to be concerned about my use of masculine pronouns in relation… — M. Scott Peck Books 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
Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous,… — M. Scott Peck Abstract Copy Share Image
Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this… — M. Scott Peck Acceptance Copy Share Image
Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom. — M. Scott Peck Courage 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 Children Copy Share Image
Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost. — M. Scott Peck Adoption Copy Share Image
A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution. — M. Scott Peck Biology Copy Share Image
It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings — M. Scott Peck Change Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear. — M. Scott Peck Absence Copy Share Image
