338 Quotes by M. Scott Peck

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

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

Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.