M. Scott Peck - Growth Quotes

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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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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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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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Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

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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 act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

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Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

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The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

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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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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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