M. Scott Peck

Quotes

• “In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the bu...”
• “Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally...”
• “Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure...”
• “When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that so...”
• “The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is...”
• “Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to...”
• “Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so bec...”
• “The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or re...”
• “The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Gen...”
• “The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The exper...”
• “There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ...”
• “The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been d...”
• “Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood withou...”
• “Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom...”
• “Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
• “We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.”
• “The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.”
• “It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets.”
• “As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.”
• “You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.”
• “We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.”
• “The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution.”
• “Whatever action we take may influence the course of civilization.”
• “For any single thing of importance, there are multiple reasons.”
• “The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.”
• “A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action”
• “We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.”
• “Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.”
• “You must have something in order to give it up.”
• “Love always requires courage and involves risk.”
• “Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.”
• “Ultimately love is everything.”