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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
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New York City
New York
Morgan Scott Peck
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If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.
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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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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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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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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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We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.
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