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If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

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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There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
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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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Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.
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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
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If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
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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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There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.
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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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Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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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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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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In and through community lies the salvation of the world.
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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 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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