M. Scott Peck Quotes

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• Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and…
• Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
• When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying…
• The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our…
• If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.
• Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.
• Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction…
• The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like…
• The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required…
• It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.
• I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked…
• Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even when we have…
• If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been…
• Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will…
• The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are…
• As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome…
• Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid…
• The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.
• We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for…
• The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

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