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...
children teaching discipline
When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
love-you care enjoy
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....
grasping accomplished ifs
If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.
spiritual loss journey
Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.
giving growth attention
The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.
life motivational change
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.
discipline tools problem
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.
wise spiritual hurt
As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
relationship commitment loving-relationships
Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.
spiritual inspirational-love love-is
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.
beautiful light shining
God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.
problem road-less-traveled cutting-edge
Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
life growing-up problem
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
life appreciation thinking
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to 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.