M. Scott Peck Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.”
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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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“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.”
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“Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.”
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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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“The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.”
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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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“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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“Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs”
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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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“Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.”
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“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.”
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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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“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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“Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.”
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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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“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.”
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“Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.”
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“Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.”
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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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“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.”
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“An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.”
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“Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?”
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- Falling In Love,
- Giving,
- Glory,
- Goals,
- God,
- Grace,
- Growing Up,
- Growth,
- Healing,
- Heart,
- Inspirational,
- Integrity,
- Journey,
- Life,
- Love,
- Lying,
- Motivational,
- Pain,
- Purpose,
- Reality,
- Risk,
- Spirituality,
- Suffering,
