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Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

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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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 path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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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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Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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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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There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
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If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.
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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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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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Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.
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If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?
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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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Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.
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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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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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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
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The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.
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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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Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
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