If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or… — M. Scott Peck 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 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
I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which… — 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
If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing?… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of… — 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
