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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.

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
Dark
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Inspirational
Certain
Enlightened
Confused

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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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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres of influence.
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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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Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.
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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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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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Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person.
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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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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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Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.
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Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.
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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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The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.
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When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
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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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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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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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