I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences. — 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… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key… — M. Scott Peck Acceptance Copy Share Image
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. — M. Scott Peck Buddhism Copy Share Image
From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything. — M. Scott Peck Age 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
“Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be… — M. Scott Peck Full life 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
When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone… — M. Scott Peck 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 Copy Share Image
I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we… — 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 Care Copy Share Image
I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than… — M. Scott Peck Evil Copy Share Image
Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their… — M. Scott Peck Commitment Copy Share Image
I never thought I would ever be middle-of-the-road anything, much less a middle-of-the-road Christian, but it actually ended up I'm extremely middle… — 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 Awareness 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
“I have defined love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Genuine… — M. Scott Peck Genuine love Copy Share Image
Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some… — M. Scott Peck Discipline Copy Share Image
We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results.… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Nothing has been accomplished. By casting away their responsibility they may feel comfortable with themselves, but they have ceased to solve the… — M. Scott Peck Life Copy Share Image
The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our… — M. Scott Peck Carelessness 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… — 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 Action Copy Share Image
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the… — M. Scott Peck Communication 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
“Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about… — M. Scott Peck Life Copy Share Image
“Once we truly know that life is difficult — once we truly understand and accept it — then life is no longer… — M. Scott Peck Life Copy Share Image
Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and… — M. Scott Peck 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
Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person… — M. Scott Peck Acting Copy Share Image
Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
In some ways, I am grateful that I was raised in a secular home, because that meant that I didn't have any… — M. Scott Peck Catholic Copy Share Image
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For… — 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
Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.'… — M. Scott Peck Foreigners Copy Share Image
Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss.… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image