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Category Archives: The Road Less Traveled
Vase or Faces: Is Life Fundamentally Easy; Difficult; or Both?
. How do you view life—as something that fundamentally is supposed to be easy (which means that difficulty and hardship are aberrations)? Or is life something that is essentially / fundamentally difficult and painful, a struggle (“life is suffering” said … Continue reading
Posted in Buddha, Critical Thinking, Difficulty, Jose Ortega y Gasset, M. Scott Peck, Pema Chodron, Personal Growth, Perspective, The Examined Life, The Road Less Traveled, Truth, Waking Up
Tagged "Archaic Torso of Apollo", Buddha, Life is Difficult, M. Scott Peck, Paradigmatic Shift, Pema Chödrön, Rilke, The Road Less Traveled
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Love & Our Two Selves
. This post was prompted in part by a post that was reblogged by Todd Loheny from MindBodyGreen.com titled “The Reason Love Dies (And How To Get It Back!)” by Shelly Bullard, MFT. This is not a direct response to her … Continue reading
Posted in "To Have or To Be?", Erich Fromm, M. Scott Peck, Martin Luther King Jr., Real Love, The Examined Life, The Road Less Traveled, Truth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged "To Have Or To Be?", Chris Rock, Erich Fromm, Intimate Realtionships, Love, M. Scott Peck, Martin Luther King Jr., Relationships, The Road Less Traveled
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Only Proactive People Can Genuinely Love Others, Reactive People Can’t (updated)
(The following is abridged and adapted and modified from Stephen R. Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”) Between stimulus and response, human beings have the freedom to choose—but only *if* we develop and … Continue reading
Posted in "Man's Search for Meaning", "Siddhartha", Conscience, Conscious Love, Courage, Critical Thinking, Differentiation, Emotional Maturity, Hermann Hesse, Immature Love, Intimate Relationships, Love is a Choice, Love is a Decision, Love is Not a Feeling, Luke 6:32-35, M. Scott Peck, Mature Love, Mental Health, Perspective, Proactivity, Reactive, Real Love, Responsibility, Spiritual Growth, Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Examined Life, The Road Less Traveled, Truth, Viktor Frankl, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged "Greenberg", "Man's Search for Meaning", "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", Albert Camus, Conscience, differentiation, Emotionally Reactive, George Gissing, M. Scott Peck, Proactivity, Reactive, Reactivity, Real Love, Self-awareness, Stephen Covey, The Road Less Traveled, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Viktor Frankl
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How to Fall in Love Again
(This is an updated version of a page I first posted over a year ago . . . ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “I have no … Continue reading
Posted in C.S. Lewis, GinaParris.com, Glennon Melton, Love, Love is a Choice, Love is a Commitment, Love is a Decision, Love is Not a Feeling, M. Scott Peck, Mature Love, Momastery, Real Love, Self-Extension, The Road Less Traveled, Thomas Merton, What is Love?, Zig Ziglar
Tagged C.S. Lewis, Falling in Love Again, Glennon Melton, Intimate relationships, Love is a Decision, Love is an Action, Love is More than a Feeling, M. Scott Peck, Marriage, Momastery, Momastery.com, The Road Less Traveled, Thomas Merton, Zig Ziglar
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Brief Book Review of M. Scott Peck’s “The Road Less Traveled”
. . In “The Road Less Traveled,” psychiatrist Morgan Scott Peck (M. Scott Peck) begins the book by turning on its end one of our most cherished and fundamental assumptions about life—that it ought to be easy. The vast majority of we human … Continue reading
Posted in M. Scott Peck, Mental Health, Real Love, Self-Extension, Spiritual Growth, The Road Less Traveled, Thomas Merton, Truth, Waking Up
Tagged "Further Along the Road Less Traveled", "The Road Less Traveled & Beyond", Examined Life, Love, M. Scott Peck, Religion and Spirituality, The Road Less Traveled, Thinking, Thomas Merton
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Differentiation, Love, and Living with Integrity
. Many people appear to think that living with integrity means living in alignment with their feelings. That if they feel a certain way about someone or something, then “integrity” requires that they act in a way that is in … Continue reading
Posted in Differentiation, Emotional Maturity, Love is Not a Feeling, M. Scott Peck, Martin Luther King Jr., Mental Health, Proactivity, Reactive, Real Love, Spiritual Growth, Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Road Less Traveled, Truth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged differentiation, emotional maturity, Examined Life, Integrity, Love, M. Scott Peck, Martin Luther King Jr., Murray Bowen, Stephen Covey
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Krishnamurti on Relationships & Self-Knowledge
The following are some of my favorite Krishnamurti quotes and excerpts that I have accumulated over the years. And some of these may include my own amending and modifications, because when I read, I don’t just consider what the author … Continue reading
Posted in Immature Love, Intimacy, Intimate Relationships, Kierkegaard, Krishnamurti, M. Scott Peck, Real Love, Schnarch, Spiritual Growth, The Road Less Traveled, Truth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged Avoidance, David Schnarch, Interpersonal relationship, Intimacy, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Kierkegaard, M. Scott Peck, Mental health, Relationships, Truth
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The Learning of Love & Gratitude
. “The hardest arithmetic to master is the one which enables us to count our blessings.” – Eric Hoffer “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether we take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” – … Continue reading
Posted in C.S. Lewis, Conscience, Conscious Love, Courage, Differentiation, Emotional Maturity, Erich Fromm, G. K. Chesterton, Gratitude, Intimacy, Intimate Relationships, James Hollis, Krishnamurti, Love is a Choice, Love is a Commitment, M. Scott Peck, Marianne Williamson, Mature Love, Mental Health, Real Love, Rilke, Schnarch, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Road Less Traveled, Waking Up, What is Love?, Writing
Tagged Apprenticeship, Eric Hoffer, Erich Fromm, G. K. Chesterton, Gratitude, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Learning, Learning-Time, Love, M. Scott Peck, Malcolm Gladwell, Murray Bowen, Practice, Real Love
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It Changes EVERYTHING! (part 2)
I was reading through another blog this morning, and as I read through one of her posts I came across the following paragraph and I thought it to be very wise and well-stated. And then I just started writing my … Continue reading
Posted in Conscious Love, Courage, Differentiation, Emotional Maturity, Immature Love, Intimate Relationships, Love is a Choice, Love is a Commitment, Love is a Decision, Love is an Act of Will, Love is Not a Feeling, M. Scott Peck, Mature Love, Mental Health, Real Love, Responsibility, Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Road Less Traveled, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Acting As-If, Alan Paton, Ayn Rand, Delay of Gratification, differentiation, emotional maturity, Growing Up, Human, M. Scott Peck, Proactivity, Stephen Covey, The Road Less Traveled, Thomas Henry Huxley
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