M. Scott Peck – Kinksters' Quotes

Until

quotemaster — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 06:00:26 +0000

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

– M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/172048-until-you-value-yourself-you-won-t-value-your-time-until

Evil hides

quotemaster — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:00:30 +0000

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one’s evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture.

– M. Scott Peck
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3061.M_Scott_Peck

God and Satan

quotemaster — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:00:34 +0000

I feel compelled to make another ‘nonapology.’ Many readers are likely to be concerned about my use of masculine pronouns in relation to God. I think I both understand and appreciate this concern. It is a matter to which I have given much thought. I have generally been a strong supporter of the women’s movement and action that is reasonable to combat sexist language. But first of all, God is not neuter. He is exploding with life and love and even sexuality of a sort. So ‘It’ is not appropriate. Certainly I consider God androgynous. He is as gentle and tender and nurturing and maternal as any woman could ever be. Nonetheless, culturally determined though it may be, I subjectively experience His reality as more masculine than feminine. While He nurtures us, He also desires to penetrate us, and while we more often than not flee from His love like a reluctant virgin, He chases after us with a vigor in the hunt that we most typically associate with males. As CS Lewis put it, in relation to God we are all female. Moreover, whatever our gender or conscious theology, it is our duty—our obligation—in response to His love to attempt to give birth, like Mary, to Christ in ourselves and in others.

I shall, however, break with tradition and use the neuter for Satan. While I know Satan to be lustful to penetrate us, I have not in the least experienced this desire as sexual or creative—only hateful and destructive. It is hard to determine the sex of a snake.

– M. Scott Peck, in People of the Lie
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3061.M_Scott_Peck

Unmet expectations in marriage

quotemaster — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:00:58 +0000

The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person. Since marriage is inevitably a relationship between two unique people, no one marriage is going to be exactly like any other. Yet we tend to wed with explicit visions of what a “good” marriage ought to be like. Then we suffer enormously from trying to force the relationship to fit the stereotype and from the neurotic guilt and anger we experience when we fail to pull it off.

– M. Scott Peck, in Search of Stones
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3061.M_Scott_Peck

The Center is Elsewhere and Other

quotemaster — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:00:12 +0000

The person with a secular mentality feels himself to be the center of the universe. Yet he is likely to suffer from a sense of meaninglessness and insignificance because he knows he’s but one human among five billion others – all feeling themselves to be the center of things – scratching out an existence on the surface of a medium-sized planet circling a small star among countless stars in a galaxy lost among countless galaxies. The person with the sacred mentality, on the other hand, does not feel herself to be the center of the universe. She considers the Center to be elsewhere and other. Yet she is unlikely to feel lost or insignificant precisely because she draws her significance and meaning from her relationship, her connection, with that center, that Other.

– M. Scott Peck
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3061.M_Scott_Peck

Wounded

quotemaster — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:00:08 +0000

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
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3061.M_Scott_Peck

Narcissists are faultless

quotemaster — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:00:12 +0000

Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world’s fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.

– M. Scott Peck
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3061.M_Scott_Peck