338 Quotes by M. Scott Peck

If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.

Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.

Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.