Archive for September 2017

In THE ROADLESS TRAVELED, Peck is talking about The Risk of Independence.   In order to be independent, a person needs to grow up. What does growing up have to do with Love?  When we go through changes it is because of self-love.  We go from what are parents might have wanted for us to…

In my reading of THE ROADLESS TRAVELED, Peck talks in the section Work of Attention that Love is a form of work or a form of courage.  When we love another we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person’s growth.   Attention is an act of our will.  Love is a…

In The Roadless Traveled in the section of Love “Self Sacrifice” Peck talks of when we do something for others, often the motivation is self righteousness or martidome.  Interesting.  But I am glad that he finished this section with these words.  Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in…

In The Roadless Traveled, Peck talks of the love of a parent new born baby or the love of someone that “loves” a pet.  This type of love is dependent on something that can’t really respond back.  A pet has no thought, they like us unconditionally.  A baby is similar until they reached around the…

Today I read out of Titus 1 in the Message, “For there are a lot of rebels out there, full of loose, confusing, and deceiving talk.  Those who were brought up religious and ought to know better are the worst. They’ve got to be shut up. They’re disrupting entire families with their teaching, and all…

The Roadless Traveled, Peck is discussing the myths of romantic love. In the last section he talked of romantic love being that feeling that we have when we are attracted to someone that never lasts. Today he talks of the myths of the fairy tail “and they lived happily for ever after.” without any problems…