M. Scott Peck - Love Quotes

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Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. They hate goodness because it revels their badness. They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness.

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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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True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.

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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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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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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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Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

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Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.

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As human beings grow in discipline and love and life experience, their understanding of the world their place in it naturally grows apace…. This understanding is our religion.

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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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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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As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

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Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truly loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present.

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When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

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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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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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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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