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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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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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The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.
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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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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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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
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Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.
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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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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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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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A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
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I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.
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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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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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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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We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.
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Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
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