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 Cures Copy Share Image
Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable. — M. Scott Peck And love 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 Attributes Copy Share Image
In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning… — M. Scott Peck Believe Copy Share Image
If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing?… — M. Scott Peck Absence Copy Share Image
Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures. — M. Scott Peck Adventure Copy Share Image
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but… — M. Scott Peck Appreciate Copy Share Image
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck Decent Copy Share Image
But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist… — M. Scott Peck Age Copy Share Image
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. — M. Scott Peck Community Copy Share Image
When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented… — M. Scott Peck Conscience 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 Ability Copy Share Image
Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or… — M. Scott Peck Clique 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 Best love Copy Share Image
Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths-it is a great truth because once we see this… — M. Scott Peck Difficult Copy Share Image
When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow… — M. Scott Peck Accompany 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,… — M. Scott Peck Communication 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 Effortless Copy Share Image
Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom. — M. Scott Peck Courage Copy Share Image
If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of… — M. Scott Peck Alive 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 Adversity Copy Share Image
“Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck Delayed gratification Copy Share Image
