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Category: M. Scott Peck

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

active-listening, listening

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

courage, love, relationships, risk

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

In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous, maintaining at the same time a scientific orientation.

beliefs, miracles, religion

For any single thing of importance, there are multiple reasons.

beliefs, reframing

It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.

Whatever action we take may influence the course of civilization.

The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution.

growth, love, spirituality

As the theologian Alan Jones has said:One of our problems is that very few of us have developed any distinctive personal life. Everything about us seems secondhand, even our emotions. In many cases we have to rely on secondhand information in order to function. I accept the word of a physician, a scientist, a farmer, on trust. I do not like to do this. I have to because they possess vital knowledge of living of which I am ignorant. Secondhand information concerning the state of my kidneys, the effects of cholesterol, and the raising of chickens, I can live with. But when it comes to questions of meaning, purpose, and death, secondhand information will not do. I cannot survive on a secondhand faith in a secondhand God. There has to be a personal word, a unique confrontation, if I am to come alive.

psychology, spirituality

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets.

psychology, spiritual-growth, traditional-values

You must have something in order to give it up.

psychology, self-growth