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Psychiatrist

M. Scott Peck was an American psychiatrist and writer, best known for his book 'The Road Less Traveled', which delves into themes of personal growth, psychotherapy, and the human mind. His writing style has been widely appreciated, and his works have had a profound impact on the fields of psychology and philosophy.

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“Life is difficult.”

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Book:The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

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

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“Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.”

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Book:The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety

Source: The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety

“Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most.”

Thinking Way Done Choices Responsibility

Book:The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.”

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“Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.”

Source: Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Towards Spiritual Growth

“I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that very evening there would be some man sitting at a bar in the local village, crying into his beer and sputtering to the bartender how much he loved his wife and children while at the same time he was wasting his family's money and depriving them of his attention. We recounted how this man was thinking love and feeling love--were they not real tears in his eyes?--but he was not in truth behaving with love.”

Source: Glimpses of the Devil: A Psychiatrist's Personal Accounts of Possession, Exorcism, and Redemption

“We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.”

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Book:The Road Less Travelled And Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety

Source: The Road Less Travelled And Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety

“In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous, maintaining at the same time a scientific orientation.”

Source: Wisdom from the Road Less Traveled

“When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.”

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Author:M. Scott Peck

“Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred, and that we should make of each moment a sacrament. Were we to do this we would think of the entire world as diffused with holiness. Wherever we might be would be a holy place for us, and we would see the holy, even sainthood, in everyone we encounter.”

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Author:M. Scott Peck