The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
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The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
In the succinctly elegant words of Carl Jung, “Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”2
M. Scott Peck • The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
To willingly confront a problem early, before we are forced to confront it by circumstances, means to put aside something pleasant or less painful for something more painful. It is choosing to suffer now in the hope of future gratification rather than choosing to continue present gratification in the hope that future suffering will not be necessary
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Thus it is necessary that the higher centers of our brain (judgment) be able to regulate and modulate the lower centers (emotion). To function successfully in our complex world it is necessary for us to possess the capacity not only to express our anger but also not to express it. Moreover, we must possess the capacity to express our anger in diffe
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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
M. Scott Peck • The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
We can lead only insofar as we go before.
M. Scott Peck • The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
What are these tools, these techniques of suffering, these means of experiencing the pain of problems constructively that I call discipline? There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing.
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In taking the time to observe and to think about their children’s needs, loving parents will frequently agonize over the decisions to be made, and will, in a very real sense, suffer along with their children. The children are not blind to this. They perceive it when their parents are willing to suffer with them, and although they may not respond wi
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The feeling of being valuable—“I am a valuable person”—is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline. It is a direct product of parental love. Such a conviction must be gained in childhood; it is extremely difficult to acquire it during adulthood. Conversely, when children have learned through the love of their parents to fe
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He chooses to lament his lack of political power instead of accepting and exulting in his immense personal power.