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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

M. Scott Peck

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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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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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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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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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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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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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Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.
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The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.
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When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
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Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person.
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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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But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.
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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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As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
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Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
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When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.
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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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A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
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