As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. — 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
The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them. — 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
“Third, this unitary definition of love includes self-love with love for the other. Since I am human and you are human, to… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
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
By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“I have defined love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Genuine… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Love is not simply giving; it is judicious giving and judicious withholding as well. It is judicious praising and judicious criticizing. It… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager… — 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
Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in… — 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… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“If falling in love is not love, then what is it other than a temporary and partial collapse of ego boundaries? I… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Dependency may appear to be love because it is a force that causes people to fiercely attach themselves to one another. But… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone… — 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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