The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.
M. Scott PeckThe symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace โ a gift of God, a message from the unconscious.
M. Scott PeckThe truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck