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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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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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Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.
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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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Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom indeed, they create our courage and 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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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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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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When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.
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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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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
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Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
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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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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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The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.
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Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. 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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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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Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom
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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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