M. Scott Peck Quotes

M. Scott Peck (22)

Birth:	22nd May, 1936
Death:	25th September, 2005
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Psychologist

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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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  Topics in Attitude, Confusion

  Tags in Chaos, Awareness, Change/Growth, Conflict, Worry, Difficulties

• There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

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• There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

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  Topics in Life

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• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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  Tags in Attention, Listening

• We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

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• It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

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• Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

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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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• The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

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• We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

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• The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

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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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  Topics in History

  Tags in Good

• Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

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  Topics in Wisdom

• We cannot solve life’s problems except by solving them.

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• Ultimately love is everything.

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• Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

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• Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

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• Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

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• One extends one’s limits only by exceeding them.

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• Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

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