Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
—M. Scott Peck
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Community
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
—M. Scott Peck
We cannot solve life’s problems except by solving them.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Simplicity, Courage, Simple Living
Although the act of nurturing another’s spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one’s own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Spirituality
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.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Journeys, Difficulty, Unhappiness, Attitude
Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems … create our courage and wisdom.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Difficulties, Adversity
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Growth
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.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Problems
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Learning, Spirituality, Awareness
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.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Acceptance
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.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Living
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.”
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Living
The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Wisdom
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Difficulty
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Responsibility
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.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Discipline
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Sharing, Cooperation, Help
When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
—M. Scott Peck
Topics: Discipline
We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
—M. Scott Peck
The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.
—M. Scott Peck
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- David Viscott American Psychiatrist, Author
- William Glasser American Psychiatrist
- Karl Menninger American Psychiatrist
- Theodore Isaac Rubin American Psychiatrist, Author
- Thomas Szasz Hungarian Psychiatrist
- R. D. Laing British Psychiatrist
- Robert Thurman American Buddhist Scholar
- Margaret Mead American Cultural Anthropologist
- Denis Waitley American Motivational Speaker
- Tony Robbins American Self-Help Author
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