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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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The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.
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When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.
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How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.
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When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it....
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Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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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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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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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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When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.
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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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Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because when 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.
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An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.
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The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.
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We learn what is significantly new only through adventures. However, going into the unknown is invariably frightening.
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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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When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
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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.
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Wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
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Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
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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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It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings
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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.
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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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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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