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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
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All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.
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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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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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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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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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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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Love always requires courage and involves risk.
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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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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person.
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When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.
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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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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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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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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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What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner.
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Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.
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Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?
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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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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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