Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding… — 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
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
As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but… — 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
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
What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to… — 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
I do not think that everybody has to struggle. But to probably at least half of the people, it never seems to… — 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
I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than… — 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
