M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck

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
M. Scott Peck

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck

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
M. Scott Peck

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

M. Scott Peck
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
M. Scott Peck

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck

Ultimately love is everything.

M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck

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
M. Scott Peck

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
M. Scott Peck

As far as I am concerned, virtually all psychological diseases have their origin in our conscious minds. And that is not what we are taught.

M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck

Since the early 1960s, since what's been called the charismatic movement within the Christian church, a significant number of Christians believe that virtually every problem a human can have is of demonic origin.

M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck

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
M. Scott Peck

In some ways, I am grateful that I was raised in a secular home, because that meant that I didn't have any old religious baggage to carry with me. I was free to go and think what I wanted.