Morgan Scott Peck (May 22, 1936 – September 25, 2005) was an American psychiatrist and best-selling author who wrote the book The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978.
Love always requires courage and involves risk.
Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.
By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening. . . True listening is love in action.
Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.
Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.
Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom
The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.
A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light.
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God. "
The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.
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.
We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
Ultimately love is everything.
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.
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.
The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person. Since marriage is inevitably a relationship between two unique people, no one marriage is going to be exactly like any other. Yet we tend to wed with explicit visions of what a “good” marriage ought to be like. Then we suffer enormously from trying to force the relationship to fit the stereotype and from the neurotic guilt and anger we experience when we fail to pull it off.
But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.