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
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
How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. — 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 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 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 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 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