M. Scott Peck

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born

May 23, 1936 in New York City, The United States

died

September 25, 2005

gender

male

website

http://www.mscottpeck.com/

genre

Health, Mind & Body, Religion & Spirituality, Social Sciences

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Dr. Peck was born on May 22, 1936 in New York City, the younger of two sons to David Warner Peck, a prominent lawyer and jurist, and his wife Elizabeth Saville. He married Lily Ho in 1959, and they had three children.

Dr. Peck received his B.A. degree magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1958, and his M.D. degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1963. From 1963 until 1972, he served in the United States Army, resigning from the position of Assistant Chief Psychiatry and Neurology Consultant to the Surgeon General of the Army with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and the Meritorious Service Medal with oak leaf cluster. From 1972 to 1983, Dr. Peck was engaged in the private practice of psychiatry in Litchfield Co...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 19,514 ratings · 1,150 reviews · 46 distinct works

	The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth 3.91 avg rating — 14,714 ratings — published 1978 — 43 editions	My rating:
	People of the Lie: The Hope For Healing Human Evil 3.88 avg rating — 1,741 ratings — published 1983 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Towards Spiritual Growth 3.82 avg rating — 1,028 ratings — published 1993 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety 3.89 avg rating — 566 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace 3.70 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 1987 — 8 editions	My rating:
	In Search Of Stones 3.49 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 1995 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Glimpses of the Devil: A Psychiatrist's Personal Accounts of Possession, Exorcism, and Redemption 3.55 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscovered 3.65 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions	My rating:
	A Bed by the Window: A Novel Of Mystery And Redemption 3.37 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Road Less Traveled 4.36 avg rating — 88 ratings	My rating:

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“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

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“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

tags: choice , emotion , feeling , insightful , love

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“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.”
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