M. Scott Peck Quotes

• Ultimately love is everything.

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  Topics in Love

• Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

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• Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

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  Topics in Love

• 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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  Topics in Work

• One extends one’s limits only by exceeding them.

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• Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

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  Topics in Wisdom

• The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

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  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Change/Growth

• 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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  Topics in Love, Spirituality

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality

M. Scott Peck (28)

Birth:	22nd May, 1936
Death:	25th September, 2005
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Psychologist

About

Peck was born in New York City, the son of Elizabeth and David Warner Peck, an attorney and judge. Peck was raised a Protestant. His parents sent him to the prestigious boarding school Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, when he was 13. In his book, The Road Less Traveled, he confides the story of his brief stay at Exeter, and admits that it was a most miserable time.

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