M. Scott Peck Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• 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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  Inspirational, Peace, Community

• The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

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  Acceptance, Keys, Differences

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

• Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.

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  Commitment, Community, Together

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

• How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

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  Community, Important, Weakness

• What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

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  Honesty, Skills, People

• It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

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  Community, Essentials, Tasks

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

• An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.

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  Lying, Order, White

  M. Scott Peck (2015). “The Different Drum: Community-making and peace”, p.88, Random House

• Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.

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  Race, Community, Enemy

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

• When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."

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  Agony, Community, Joy

• I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres of influence.

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  Moving, Community, Dubious

• In and through community lies the salvation of the world.

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  Lying, Community, World

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous, unfathomable. Thus there is no adequate one-sentence definition of genuine community. Community is something more than the sum of its parts, its individual members. What is this "something more?" Even to begin to answer that, we enter a realm that is not so much abstract as almost mystical. It is a realm where words are never fully suitable and language itself falls short.

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  Fall, Community, Answers

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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