If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of sex, the hope of ambition, friendship-all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant. — 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
