Reflections

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…

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…