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 PeckLove is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.
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 — a gift of God, a message from the unconscious.
M. Scott PeckIn 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.
M. Scott Peck