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M. Scott Peck, author of The Road Less Traveled, on Love:
"Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual
evolution. What provides the motivation, the energy for discipline? This
force I believe to be Love.
I define Love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing
one's own or another's spiritual growth.
The act of extending one's limits implies effort. One extends one's limits only
by exceeding them, and exceeding limits requires effort. When we love
someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only though our exertion -
through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step
or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is
effortful. "
"By the use of the word, "will", I have attempted to transcend the distinction
between desire and action. Will is desire of sufficient intensity that it is
translated into action.
The difference is equal to the difference between saying, "I would like to go
swimming tonight" and "I will go swimming tonight."
Everyone in our culture (USA), desires to some extent to be loving, yet
many are not in fact loving. I therefore conclude that the desire to love is
not itself love. Love is as love does. Love is an act of will - namely, both
an intention and an action."
"Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual
evolution. What provides the motivation, the energy for discipline? This
force I believe to be Love.
I define Love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing
one's own or another's spiritual growth.
The act of extending one's limits implies effort. One extends one's limits only
by exceeding them, and exceeding limits requires effort. When we love
someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only though our exertion -
through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step
or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is
effortful. "
"By the use of the word, "will", I have attempted to transcend the distinction
between desire and action. Will is desire of sufficient intensity that it is
translated into action.
The difference is equal to the difference between saying, "I would like to go
swimming tonight" and "I will go swimming tonight."
Everyone in our culture (USA), desires to some extent to be loving, yet
many are not in fact loving. I therefore conclude that the desire to love is
not itself love. Love is as love does. Love is an act of will - namely, both
an intention and an action."
"The credit belongs to the man in the
arena, whose face is marred by dust
and sweat and blood, who strives
valiantly... who knows the great
enthusiasms, the great devotions, who
spends himself in a worthy cause, who
at the best knows in the end the
triumph of high achievement, and who
at the worst, if he fails, at least fails
while daring greatly, so that his place
shall never be with those cold and timid
souls who have never known neither
victory nor defeat."
- Teddy Roosevelt
arena, whose face is marred by dust
and sweat and blood, who strives
valiantly... who knows the great
enthusiasms, the great devotions, who
spends himself in a worthy cause, who
at the best knows in the end the
triumph of high achievement, and who
at the worst, if he fails, at least fails
while daring greatly, so that his place
shall never be with those cold and timid
souls who have never known neither
victory nor defeat."
- Teddy Roosevelt
"My command is this:
Love each other as I
have loved you. Greater
love has no one than
this, that he lay down his
life for his friends. "
(Jesus), John 15: 12, 12
Love each other as I
have loved you. Greater
love has no one than
this, that he lay down his
life for his friends. "
(Jesus), John 15: 12, 12
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These pages are less academic report, and more personal journal, thus I will
occasionally add italics or bold or underline - usually being my own personal
emphasis. Also, I will skip the "...." markings traditionally shown when words
are left out of quotations. If you require ultimate accuracy, please read each
book quoted, though I can assure you the words printed here are indeed the
words of each author.
occasionally add italics or bold or underline - usually being my own personal
emphasis. Also, I will skip the "...." markings traditionally shown when words
are left out of quotations. If you require ultimate accuracy, please read each
book quoted, though I can assure you the words printed here are indeed the
words of each author.
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