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The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

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
Lifelong
Joyful
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Learning
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Spiritual

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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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Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.
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Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
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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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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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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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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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In and through community lies the salvation of the world.
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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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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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Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
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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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A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
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Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.
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There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.
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We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.
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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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It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings
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Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom
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