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If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.

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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Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.
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I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres of influence.
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The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
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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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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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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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Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.
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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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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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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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Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?
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Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.
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We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.
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Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
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Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.
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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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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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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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