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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.
M. Scott Peck
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M. Scott Peck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 22
Died: 2005
Died: September 25
Psychiatrist
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New York City
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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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If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.
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There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
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Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?
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