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
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
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
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
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
Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the… — M. Scott Peck Child Copy Share Image
We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will… — M. Scott Peck Confusion 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 Life Copy Share Image
I do not think that everybody has to struggle. But to probably at least half of the people, it never seems to… — M. Scott Peck Adversity Copy Share Image
Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person… — M. Scott Peck Acting 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 Copy Share Image
“Once we truly know that life is difficult — once we truly understand and accept it — then life is no longer… — M. Scott Peck Life Copy Share Image
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the… — M. Scott Peck Communication Copy Share Image
Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or… — M. Scott Peck Clique Copy Share Image
Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.'… — M. Scott Peck Foreigners Copy Share Image
Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even… — 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
Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager… — 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
In some ways, I am grateful that I was raised in a secular home, because that meant that I didn't have any… — M. Scott Peck Catholic Copy Share Image
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in… — M. Scott Peck Awareness Copy Share Image
Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their… — M. Scott Peck Commitment Copy Share Image
I never thought I would ever be middle-of-the-road anything, much less a middle-of-the-road Christian, but it actually ended up I'm extremely middle… — 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 Evil 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 Delayed gratification Copy Share Image
“I have defined love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Genuine… — M. Scott Peck Genuine love Copy Share Image
When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself-… — M. Scott Peck Care Copy Share Image
I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in… — 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 Action Copy Share Image
The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our… — M. Scott Peck Carelessness Copy Share Image
“Nothing has been accomplished. By casting away their responsibility they may feel comfortable with themselves, but they have ceased to solve the… — M. Scott Peck Life Copy Share Image
We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results.… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some… — M. Scott Peck Discipline Copy Share Image
![“Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.” quote by M. Scott Peck](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c3d/m-scott-peck-1921_awareness_evil-people-hate-the-light-because-it-re_1296677.png)
![“Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others'…” quote by M. Scott Peck](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/374/m-scott-peck-1921_commitment_community-is-a-group-of-individuals-who_2886661.jpg)
