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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
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New York City
New York
Morgan Scott Peck
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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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Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs
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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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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 life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.
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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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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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But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.
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The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
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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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Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.
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An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding true community is conflict-resolving.
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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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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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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.
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Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
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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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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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