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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.

M. Scott Peck

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M. Scott Peck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 22
Died: 2005
Died: September 25
Psychiatrist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Morgan Scott Peck
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The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
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Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
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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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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.
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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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God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
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