M. Scott Peck Quotes

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• The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

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  Spiritual, Encouragement, Truth

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

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  Motivational, Reality, Emotional

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• It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.

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  Pain, Adversity, Cutting

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• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.

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  Thinking, Hands, Evil

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• 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 love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.

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  Spiritual, Love Is, Self

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• Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

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  Reality, Dedication, Cost

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 spiritual growth.

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  Change, Spiritual, Attitude

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “Further Along The Road Less Travelled”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

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  Giving, Listening, Important

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• Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

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  Profound, Prejudice, Want

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• Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

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  Inspiring, Courage, Fear

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves.

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  Pain, Compassion, Being There

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

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  Journey, Self, Answers

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• The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

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  Wall, Communication, Purpose

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

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  Change, Forever, Growth

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

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  America, Delay, Sin

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• I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.

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  Running, Spiritual, Kindness

  M. Scott Peck (1983). “People of the Lie”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach.

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  Opportunity, Teach, Interaction

  M. Scott Peck (2012). “The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, p.168, Random House

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• Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.

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  Commitment, Community, Together

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Life, Motivational, Change

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• The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.

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  Action, Contemplation

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.

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  Thoughtful, Love Is, Decision

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.

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  Truth, Pain, Hate

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• The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

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  Life, Happiness, God

  "The Enlightened Savage : Using Primal Instincts for Personal & Business Success". Book by Anthony Hernandez (p. 147), 2006.

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