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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
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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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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person.
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Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.
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There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.
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Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.
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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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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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But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.
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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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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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A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
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Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
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All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.
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Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.
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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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It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings
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Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs
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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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