Scott Peck
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...
wall communication purpose
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.
acceptance love-is speak-less
Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.
commitment community together
Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.
acceptance differences keys
The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
ignorance pride evil
The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.
reality dedication cost
Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs
inspiring courage action
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.
inspirational happiness spiritual
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.
inspirational funny motivational
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
real love-is our-love
When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.
spiritual encouragement truth
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.