M. Scott Peck Quotes About Spiritual Growth

Quotes about: Spiritual Growth

• 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.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Love Is, Self

• 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.

  M. Scott Peck

  Life, Happiness, God

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

• The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Growth, Path

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

• 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

• I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Relationship, Spiritual

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

• Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

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  Love, Inspiring, Spiritual

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

• Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Pain, Attitude

• 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 between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Spiritual, Growth

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

• Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Growth, Life Is

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “Further Along The Road Less Travelled”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

• I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Growth, Mind

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

• Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

• Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Loss, Journey

  M. Scott Peck (2003). “The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, Touchstone

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