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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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
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New York City
New York
Morgan Scott Peck
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
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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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There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
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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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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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If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
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Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.
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What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner.
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Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
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Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs
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Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.
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If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.
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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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Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.
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Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person.
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Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.
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Courage is not the absence of fear it is the making of action in spite of fear.
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The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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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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