Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because… — M. Scott Peck 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 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 Copy Share Image
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. — 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 Copy Share Image
An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices,… — 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 Image
As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 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 live that… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
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 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 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 the mystery… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
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 Image
“It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.” — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
