M. Scott Peck Quotes About Suffering
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If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.
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The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.
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When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
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When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
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If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.
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Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
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The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person. Since marriage is inevitably a relationship between two unique people, no one marriage is going to be exactly like any other. Yet we tend to wed with explicit visions of what a “good” marriage ought to be like. Then we suffer enormously from trying to force the relationship to fit the stereotype and from the neurotic guilt and anger we experience when we fail to pull it off.
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The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.
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While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. Perhaps it is a necessary lie in that it ensures the survival of the falling-in-love experience that traps us into marriage. But as a psychiatrist I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. Millions of people waste vast amounts of energy desperately and futilely attempting to make the reality of their lives conform to the unreality of the myth.
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There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.
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