M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck
Morgan Scott Peckwas an American psychiatrist and best-selling author, best known for his first book, The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth22 May 1936
CountryUnited States of America
answers want easy
I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers.
numbers teach
Teach us to number our days aright.
pain ambition suffering
If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.
world examination painful
Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.
addiction drug dangerous
Many addictions can be far more dangerous than addiction to drugs. The addiction to power ...
believe people essentials
Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.
time stress two
I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.
falling-in-love love-is limits
Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
love-is thoughtful decision
True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.
self hands and-love
Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.
spiritual growth life-is
Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
hard-work exercise people
Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.
believe thinking ordinary-days
In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous, maintaining at the same time a scientific orientation.
inspirational confused dark
We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.