Morgan Scott Peck (1936–2005) was an American psychiatrist and best-selling author who wrote the book The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978. (wikipedia)
If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.
Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.
Do what you feel called to do, but also be prepared to accept that you don't necessarily know what you're going to learn. Be willing to be surprised by forces beyond your control, and realize that a major learning on the journey is the art of surrender.
A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light.
The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.
But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers.