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M. Scott Peck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 22
Died: 2005
Died: September 25
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
New York City
New York
Morgan Scott Peck
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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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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.
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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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A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
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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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Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.
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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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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.
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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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Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom
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The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.
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I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres of influence.
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Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.
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If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.
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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 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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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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Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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