"I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth." M. Scott Peck

 

“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.”

 

“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.”

 

"Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.”

 

Ultimately love is everything.”

 

“Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.”

 

“It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.”

 

Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.”

 

“Love is the will to extend one's self-in order to nuture-one's own or another's spiritual growth.”

 

“Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.”

 

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.”

 

Quotes on "things" :) Know yourself - Commitment and self commitment.

 

 

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of Grass (1881-82)

 

O ME! O LIFE!

 

O ME! O life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the
      foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than
      I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the
      struggle ever renew'd,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I
      see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me inter-
      twined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring -- What good amid these,
      O me, O life?

Answer.

That you are here -- that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

 

Other quotes on know yoursef : Commitment

 

"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs." Ralph Waldo Emerson on Commitment

 

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.  The most important product of his effort is his own personality.  ~Erich Fromm

 

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.  ~Carl G. Jung

 

Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out.  ~Bob Moawad