True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision. — 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 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
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
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
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
“I feel compelled to make another 'nonapology.' Many readers are likely to be concerned about my use of masculine pronouns in relation… — 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
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. — 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
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
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
“Of all the misconceptions about love the most powerful and pervasive is the belief that "falling in love" is love or at… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“It is lonely behind these boundaries. Some people-particularly those whom psychiatrists call schizoid-because of unpleasant, traumatizing experiences in childhood, perceive the world… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths (and will explore several… — 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
