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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
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Spiritual
Lifelong
Joyful
Growth
Learning

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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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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
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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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Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.
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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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All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.
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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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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
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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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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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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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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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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
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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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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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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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But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.
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Integrity is never painless.
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If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.
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Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.
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