338 Quotes by M. Scott Peck

In regard to methodology, science has tended to say, “What is very difficult to study doesn’t merit study.” And in regard to natural law, science tends to say, “What is very difficult to understand doesn’t exist.” The church has been a bit more broad-minded. To the religious establishment what cannot be understood in terms of known natural law is a miracle, and miracles do exist.

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. This.

Sooner or later, if they are to be healed, they must learn that the entirety of one’s adult life is a series of personal choices, decisions. If they can accept this totally, then they become free people. To the extent that they do not accept this they will forever feel themselves victims.

This process of active clinging to an outmoded view of reality is the basis for much mental illness. Psychiatrists refer to it as transference.

If we seek to be loved – if we expect to be loved – this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.

And to make matters worse, most of us are not even fully aware of our own world views, much less the uniqueness of the experience from which they are derived.

True listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self.

This feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when one considers oneself valuable one will take care of oneself in all ways that are necessary.

Yet even more important than role modeling is love.