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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.

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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Become
Godhood
God
Evolution
Toward
Wants
Growing

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Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.
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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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The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
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If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.
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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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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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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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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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If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?
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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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A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
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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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