Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this… — 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
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
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather… — M. Scott Peck 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 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 Copy Share Image
It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings — M. Scott Peck 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
Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach. — 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
