M. Scott Peck Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Extension of ourselves or moving out against the inertia of laziness we call work. Moving out in the face of fear we call courage.
It may sound strange to laymen, but psychotherapists are familiar with the fact that people are routinely terrified by mental health.
We are almost always less or more competent than we believe ourselves to be. The unconscious,however, knows who we really are.
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
The times have changed. To move with them I had to give it up. I do not miss it. I thought I would, but I don't.
The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.
But the fact of the matter is that everyone has an explicit or implicit set of ideas and beliefs as to the essential nature of the world.
If being loved is your goal, you will fail to achieve it. The only way to be assured of being loved is to be a person worthy of love, and
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.
And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.
the healthy self, however, must always be vigilant against the laziness of the sick self that still lurks within us.
I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.
The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
We live our lives in the eye of God, and not at the periphery but at the center of His vision, His concern.
When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
Through grace we are helped not to stumble and through grace we know that we are being welcomed. What more can we ask?
If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.
By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening ... True listening is love in action.
A full life will be full of pain. But the only alternative is not to live fully or not to live at all.
We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.
The idea that God is actively nurturing us so that we might grow up to be like Him brings us face to face with our own laziness.
Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.
But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.
Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be full of pain.
My time was my responsibility. It was up to me and me alone to decide how I wanted to use and order my time.
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 left out?
If I truly love another, I will obviously order my behavior in such a way as to contribute the utmost to his or her spiritual growth.
And I know that I and anyone else who is not mentally defective can solve any problem if we are willing to take the time.
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.
Even when we truly understand these matters, the journey of spiritual growth is still so lonely and difficult that we often become discouraged.
Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.
I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.
Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths-it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.
We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.