338 Quotes by M. Scott Peck

By this I mean let us teach ourselves and our children the necessity for suffering and the value thereof, the need to face problems directly and to experience the pain involved. I.

But the biggest problem of map-making is not that we have to start from scratch, but that if our maps are to be accurate we have to continually revise them.

And I know that I and anyone else who is not mentally defective can solve any problem if we are willing to take the time.

The times have changed. To move with them I had to give it up. I do not miss it. I thought I would, but I don’t.

We do this by a variety of means which psychiatrists call defense mechanisms. All of us employ such defenses, thereby limiting our awareness. If in our laziness and fear of suffering we massively defend our awareness, then it will come to pass that our understanding of the world will bear little or no relation to reality.

We must always consider our personal discomfort relatively unimportant and, indeed, even welcome it in the service of the search for truth.

Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There's some evidence that you can have both.

Since the early 1960s, since what's been called the charismatic movement within the Christian church, a significant number of Christians believe that virtually every problem a human can have is of demonic origin.

I do not think that everybody has to struggle. But to probably at least half of the people, it never seems to enter their minds that they might be engaged in a struggle or that there might be something to struggle with.