M. Scott Peck was a practicing psychiatrist whose work with people experiencing the pain of growth led to the writing of The Road Less Traveled. It touched so many people that Peck has continued writing on what he sees as a key issue in today's world: our need to meld the spiritual with the everyday concerns of our lives.
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| Quote: | The journey of spiritual growth is a long one. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | life growth change spirituality perfectionism self-improvement patience life-long learning |
| Quote: | 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. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | life difficulties challenges pain obstacles problems truth acceptance perspective struggles illness disability problems adversity inner peace |
| Quote: | Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | life challenges difficulties obstacles problems focus perspective action |
| Quote: | Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | life problems obstacles challenges difficulties discipline will action character growth change |
| Quote: | ...it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually...It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | problems obstacles challenges difficulties pain meaning life wisdom success failure courage growth spirituality |
| Quote: | What are these tools, these techniques of suffering, these means of experiencing the pain of problems constructively that I call discipline? There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | pain change growth discipline gratification responsibility integrity truth honesty balance wisdom learning obstacles challenges problems |
| Quote: | I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | spirituality thinking thought growth change |
| Quote: | It seems we may live in a society that has almost forgotten the glory of what it means to be human. We are in need of healing. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscovered by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | humanity meaning purpose life spirituality sin society community mistakes failures |
| Quote: | The battle to heal human evil always begins at home. And self-purification will always be our greatest weapon. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | People of the Lie by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | evil badness sin depravity change growth spirituality healing insanity badness cruelty madness crime lust greed change self-awareness responsibility |
| Quote: | Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | pain procrastination pleasure joy enjoyment |
| Quote: | If a child sees his parents day in and day out behaving with self-discipline, restraint, dignity and a capacity to order their own lives, then the child will come to feel in the deepest fibers of his being that this is the way to live. If a child sees his parents day in and day out living without self-restraint or self-discipline, then he will come in the deepest fibers of being to believe that that is the way to live. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | parenting setting an example raising children childrearing |
| Quote: | Ultimately love is everything. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | love relationships self-control self-discipline self-worth self-esteem parenting |
| Quote: | When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | love relationships friendships priorities balance marriage parenting time planning |
| Quote: | The feeling of being valuable--"I am a valuable person"--is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline...because when one considers oneself valuable one will take care of onself in all ways that are necessary. Self-discipline is self-caring. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | self-discipline self-worth self-esteem values priorities balance overeating sins of the flesh self-control |
| Quote: | Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Toward Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | life learning spirituality growth self-improvement direction meaning easy answers difficulties problems challenges |
| Quote: | I hope that you will abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience--to appreciate the fact that life is complex. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Toward Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | problems challenges difficulties life living growth |
| Quote: | 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. |
| Author: | M. Scott Peck |
| Source: | In Search of Stones: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason, and Discovery by M. Scott Peck |
| Keywords: | reason understanding spirituality mystery |
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