Quotes from 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.

Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

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.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

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.

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.

From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.

I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.

I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God."

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

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

We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

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.

Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There's some evidence that you can have both.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

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

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.

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

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.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.