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Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

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
Spirituality
Growth
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Happens
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Life
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If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.
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I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.
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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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Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
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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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Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
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The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
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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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When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
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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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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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A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
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Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.
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