M. Scott Peck Quotes About Love
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Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.
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I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
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Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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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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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 behaving with love.
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