M Scott Peck Quotes

A collection of quotes by M Scott Peck.

M. Scott Peck was an American psychiatrist and author, best known for his bestselling book "The Road Less Traveled." Born on May 22, 1936, in New York City, Peck grew up in an intellectual and open-minded family. He completed his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, where he also earned his medical degree in 1963.

After his medical training, Peck served as a psychiatrist in the United States Army and then began working in private practice. His experiences treating patients with different mental health issues greatly influenced his writing career. In 1978, he published his first book, "The Road Less Traveled," which delved into topics such as personal growth, self-discipline, and spiritual development. The book became tremendously popular and spent over 10 years on The New York Times Best Seller list, ultimately selling millions of copies.

Peck continued to write numerous books, including "People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil" and "The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety." Throughout his writings, he explored human psychology, spirituality, and the importance of personal responsibility.

An engaging speaker and teacher, M. Scott Peck toured extensively, giving lectures and workshops around the world. His unique and compassionate approach to psychiatry and his willingness to address taboo subjects garnered him a large following. Peck's work contributed greatly to the field of self-help literature and continues to inspire individuals seeking personal and spiritual growth.

M. Scott Peck passed away on September 25, 2005, leaving behind a legacy of insight and wisdom that continues to resonate with readers and seekers of personal transformation.

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nur

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.

Love Choice Insightful Emotion Feeling

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Ge

Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.

Since narcissists deep down, feel themselves to be faultless

Since narcissists deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.

Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give

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.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until y

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her.http://www.beliefnet.com/story/159/story_15928_1.html

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth ca

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occu

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.