"Morgan Scott Peck" was an American psychiatrist and best-selling author, best known for his first book, #The_Road_Less_Traveled/The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978.

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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.

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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.

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Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths—it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

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Ultimately love is everything.

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

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Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.

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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."

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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.

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

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

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