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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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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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When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.
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We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.
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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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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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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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If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.
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I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.
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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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When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.
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The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.
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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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Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.
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