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
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
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 feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself-… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline. — 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
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
Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable. — 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
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
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
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
