Here are some quotes by M.Scott Peck - the writer of "The Road Less Traveled", a must read book. I read it first 20 years ago and still go back to it time and again...
Good
discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children,
or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them
closely enough to become aware of when their need for our
disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.
The
truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are
feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only
in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to
step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer
answers.
“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.”
“We
cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.”
“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.”
“Life
is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It
is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend
it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly
understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because
once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer
matters.”
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