Scott Peck
Scott Peck
Morgan Scott Peckwas an American psychiatrist and best-selling author, best known for his first book, The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978...
great greatest life transcend truth
Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.
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Love is the will to extend one's self-in order to nuture-one's own or another's spiritual growth.
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Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
commitment community together
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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The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.
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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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Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.
spiritual pain attitude
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.
integrity painless
Integrity is never painless.
spiritual love-is self
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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Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
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Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.
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Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.
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Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.