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Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

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 will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.
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We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
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When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.
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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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Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
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Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.
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Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?
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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
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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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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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There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.
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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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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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Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
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If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
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Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.
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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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The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.
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