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A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
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The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.
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If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
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The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents.... When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.
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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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Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.
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The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.
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If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of sex, the hope of ambition, friendship-all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.
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What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.
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Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.
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Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.
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By attempting to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we are giving away our power to some other individual or organization. In this way, millions daily attempt to escape from freedom.
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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.
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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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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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True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.
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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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The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.
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Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be the more you will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn.
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Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.
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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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Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.
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An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.
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When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
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Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
M. Scott Peck
Born:
May 22, 1936
Died:
September 25, 2005
(aged 69)
Bio:
Morgan Scott Peck was an American psychiatrist and best-selling author, best known for his first book, The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978.
Known for:
The Road Less Traveled (1978)
People of the Lie (1983)
The Different Drum (1987)
Further Along the Road Less Traveled (1988)
Glimpses of the Devil (2005)
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