When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. — M. Scott Peck Dealing with problems 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 Evolution Copy Share Image
If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom. — M. Scott Peck Adversity Copy Share Image
We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him… — M. Scott Peck Emptiness Copy Share Image
We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most… — M. Scott Peck 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
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 Copy Share Image
“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the… — M. Scott Peck Courage Copy Share Image
When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of… — M. Scott Peck Agony Copy Share Image
Do what you feel called to do, but also be prepared to accept that you don't necessarily know what you're going to… — 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,… — M. Scott Peck Communication Copy Share Image
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for… — M. Scott Peck Battle Copy Share Image
The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up… — M. Scott Peck Behavior 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… — M. Scott Peck Attention Copy Share Image
“It is lonely behind these boundaries. Some people-particularly those whom psychiatrists call schizoid-because of unpleasant, traumatizing experiences in childhood, perceive the world… — M. Scott Peck Daily living 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
“Of all the misconceptions about love the most powerful and pervasive is the belief that "falling in love" is love or at… — 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 Acceptance Copy Share Image
“Truth or reality is avoided when it is painful. We can revise our maps only when we have the discipline to overcome… — M. Scott Peck Discipline Copy Share Image
“I feel compelled to make another 'nonapology.' Many readers are likely to be concerned about my use of masculine pronouns in relation… — M. Scott Peck Books 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
Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous,… — M. Scott Peck Abstract Copy Share Image
Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words. — 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
Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them. — M. Scott Peck Boundaries Copy Share Image
The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be… — M. Scott Peck Ability 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… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health. — M. Scott Peck 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
We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly… — M. Scott Peck Emptiness Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, virtually all psychological diseases have their origin in our conscious minds. And that is not what… — 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… — M. Scott Peck Awareness Copy Share Image
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no… — M. Scott Peck Community Copy Share Image
By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action. — M. Scott Peck Action Copy Share Image
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance. — M. Scott Peck Acceptance Copy Share Image
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
