Quotes by M. Scott Peck

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
– M. Scott Peck
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be acheinved only through persistent exercise of real love.
– 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
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
– 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
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
Ultimately love is everything.
– 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
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
– M. Scott Peck
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.
– 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
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
– M. Scott Peck
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
– 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
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
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
– M. Scott Peck