M. Scott Peck Quotes

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

- 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

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

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

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

- 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

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

- M. Scott Peck

Ultimately love is everything.

- 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

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

- 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

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

- 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

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

- 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

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

- 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