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There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.
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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Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.
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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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I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres of influence.
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With total discipline we can solve all problems.
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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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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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God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
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As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
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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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Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
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Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.
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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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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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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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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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Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
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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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A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
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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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Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.
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