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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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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 path to holiness lies through questioning 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 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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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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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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There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
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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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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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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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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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Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.
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With total discipline we can solve all problems.
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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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The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention we attend to that person's growth.
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We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
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The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.
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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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