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If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.
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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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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Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to rejoice together, mourn together, and to delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.
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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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Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
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I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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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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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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The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.
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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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With total discipline we can solve all problems.
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We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.
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Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person.
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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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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
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If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
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In and through community lies the salvation of the world.
M. Scott Peck
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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