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M Scott Peck Inspirational Quotes (88)

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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.
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Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.
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Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
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Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person.
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God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
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The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention we attend to that person's growth.
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Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.
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We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.
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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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Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.
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Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.
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From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.
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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.
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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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I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
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What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner.
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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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Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.
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The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
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We cannot even let the other 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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Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
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Love always requires courage and involves risk.
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The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.
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