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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…

It is Wednesday morning and I am feeling good. I have walked with my daughter, listened to a couple of podcasts, I am up and dressed and the sun is shinning.  I am listening to a new radio station for me, Shine FM 95.3. I have a busy day ahead but I want to start…

In the section of Discipline in THE ROADLESS TRAVELED, Peck leaves with some thoughts.  Is it ever possible to become free from emotional pain in this life?  The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.  If your goal is to…

M. Scott Peck, MD states in The Roadless Traveled that “It is in the giving up of self that human being can find the most ecstatic and lasting solid, durable joy of life.   He talks of “Bracketing”.  Bracketing is essentially the act of balancing the need for stability and assertion of the self with the…

One of the most challanging things in life is “balancing” our life. This is the subject of today’s reflections in The Roadless Traveled by Peck. Scott says discipline itself must be disciplined which he calls balancing. Balancing is the discipline that give us flexibility.  It is necessary that the higher centers of our Brain (judgement) be…

Withholding Truth from M. Scott Peck, M.D. ‘s THE ROADLESS TRAVELED,  is our subject today.  Lying can be divided into two types: white lies and black lies.  A black like is a statement we make that we know is false.  A white lie is a statement we make that is not in itself false but…