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Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

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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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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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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If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.
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There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.
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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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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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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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Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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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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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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Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person.
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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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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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Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
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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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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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It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings
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