The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety
M. Scott Peck
Language: English
Pages: 324
ISBN: 0684835614
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The culmination of a lifetime of Dr. M. Scott Peck’s counseling, lecturing, and writing, and the conclusion of the classic bestselling Road trilogy, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond leads us to a deeper awareness of how to live rich, fulfilling lives in a world fraught with stress and anxiety.
With the rare combination of profound psychological insight and deep spirituality that has already spoken to millions of readers, Dr. Peck talks about decision making and the choices we make every day in business and at home, and the ethical choices that may affect the very survival of humankind. We learn the difference between good and evil, to overcome narcissism, to love and be loved, to live with paradox, to accept the consequences of our actions all through life, and to come to terms with dying and death.
Dr. Peck is a guide on the adventure that is life, learning, and spiritual growth—life’s greatest adventure. Building in depth from the very first chapter to its lyrical and poetic conclusion, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond is an adventure in itself.
French and read: “Aimez-vous les Uns les Autres.” Do with this what you will. I myself have chosen, by Your grace, To see it as something more Than a childish game. And some soon day I imagine I may even see The picture on the box, or, Led deeper into Your mystery, Be handed a jigsaw or else, As a trembling apprentice, Even a paintbrush. In the meantime Thank you for letting me know That it is You Who are the name of the game. Notes CHAPTER 1: THINKING 1 “It is not
twenty years. Some may consider this book a compilation, a compendium, or a summary of all my published work, but those words are inadequate. In writing the book, I found that I had to be quite selective. “Synthesis” would be a more adequate description, but still fails to capture the “beyondness” of the book. For in addition to tying up loose ends, I wanted to break new ground as well. I have been powerfully assisted in doing so by a quote attributed to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who
Road Less Travelled: The Unending Journey Toward Spiritual Growth (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993) elaborated on themes and concepts first explored in The Road Less Travelled and was a revised and edited collection of Dr. Peck’s lectures. Dr. Peck’s next work was In Search of Stones (New York: Hyperion Books, 1995), an integration of themes related to history, travel, and autobiography. Subtitled A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason and Discovery, it was the story of a three-week trip through the
or to what extent they are developed or learned. It is an extremely mysterious matter and represents a wide-open frontier for psychological research. In any case, I believe that a strong will is one of the two greatest blessings that can be bestowed upon a human being. I believe this not because a strong will necessarily guarantees success—it may backfire and create a Hitler, for example—but because a weak will pretty much guarantees failure. For instance, it is strong-willed people—those with
important events in her life surfaced during our session together, it became obvious that the woman’s description of a “wonderfully happy” childhood was only one version of the story—a simplistic and comforting one perhaps. I learned that when she was twelve years old, her mother became incapacitated with multiple sclerosis and died seven years later. By now it was clear to me that the woman’s giggly, childish manner was the result of her having become fixated at a preadolescent emotional stage.