M. Scott Peck Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

  M. Scott Peck

  Motivational, Reality, Emotional

• Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

  M. Scott Peck

  Reality, Dedication, Cost

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

• Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.

  M. Scott Peck

  Reality, Views, Maps

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Lying, Fall

• Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person.

  M. Scott Peck

  Lonely, Jesus, Real

• The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

  M. Scott Peck

  Reality, Appreciate, Effort

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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