Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“If someone is determined not to risk pain, then such a person must do without many things: [...] - all that makes… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly… — 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
Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss.… — 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
“Once we truly know that life is difficult — once we truly understand and accept it — then life is no longer… — 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
“Nothing has been accomplished. By casting away their responsibility they may feel comfortable with themselves, but they have ceased to solve the… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some… — 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… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Specifically, one whose life is ruled and dictated by dependency needs suffers from a psychiatric disorder to which we ascribe the diagnostic… — 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
It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived. — 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
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths-it is a great truth because once we see this… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do?… — 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
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“When I say that evil has to do with killing, I do not mean to restrict myself to corporeal murder. Evil is… — 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
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