Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. — M. Scott Peck Buddhism Copy Share Image
The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key… — M. Scott Peck Acceptance 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
From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything. — M. Scott Peck Age Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be… — M. Scott Peck Full life 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
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no… — M. Scott Peck Community 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
An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Since the early 1960s, since what's been called the charismatic movement within the Christian church, a significant number of Christians believe that… — 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 Awakening 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
Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give,… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to… — M. Scott Peck Ability Copy Share Image
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Of all the misconceptions about love the most powerful and pervasive is the belief that "falling in love" is love or at… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and… — M. Scott Peck Life Copy Share Image
Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about… — M. Scott Peck Adversity Copy Share Image
“It is lonely behind these boundaries. Some people-particularly those whom psychiatrists call schizoid-because of unpleasant, traumatizing experiences in childhood, perceive the world… — M. Scott Peck Daily living Copy Share Image
To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes… — M. Scott Peck Adversity Copy Share Image
“If we kill those who are evil, we will become evil ourselves; we will be killers. If we attempt to deal with… — M. Scott Peck Evil Copy Share Image
In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
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 Action Copy Share Image
The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance. — M. Scott Peck Acceptance Copy Share Image
Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Boundaries Copy Share Image
Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I've gone to great lengths not to be a guru. I think the notion of guruhood is utterly pathological, and I couldn't… — 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 Ability Copy Share Image
We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing?… — M. Scott Peck Absence Copy Share Image
Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as… — M. Scott Peck Awareness Copy Share Image
We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly… — M. Scott Peck Emptiness Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, virtually all psychological diseases have their origin in our conscious minds. And that is not what… — 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 Dealing with problems Copy Share Image
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 Evolution Copy Share Image
