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M. Scott Peck quotes about love

American Psychologist May 22, 1936 – September 25, 2005

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I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that very evening there would be some man sitting at a bar in the local village, crying into his beer and sputtering to the bartender how much he loved his wife and children while at the same time he was wasting his family's money and depriving them of his attention. We recounted how this man was thinking love and feeling love--were they not real tears in his eyes?--but he was not in truth... M. Scott Peck
Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck quote: "I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the..."
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. M. Scott Peck
Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love. M. Scott Peck
Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call. M. Scott Peck
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. M. Scott Peck
Love 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 Peck
M. Scott Peck quote: "Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience."
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck quote: "Ultimately love is everything."
Ultimately love is everything. M. Scott Peck

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