Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the… — 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
