I liked this book, but it was more of a review of his others. Not great unless you've never read his others.

Great book. Informative and reassuring

An exquisite theological synthesis of reason and faith, paradox and prayer. Challenging and affirming in equal measure. Forced me to confront and adapt many a longheld belief.

This book is about spiritual growth, and so said offers a religious (Christian) approach to its message. However Mr. Scott successfully avoids being preachy. He does not present the Christian faith as superior to others, and the subtlety of this approach makes any reader across the board comfortable with his message.

His first emphasis is on thinking. No one need mention what an important component this is, of all human acts of choice. And the author offers a critical study against simple thinking, instead campaigning for depth. He goes on to tackle consciousness and its mystery, showing how a sense of awareness can bring to life harmony and serendipity.

His other main assertion is that in order to grow, we need to learn. And learning is equally a choice, in a sense that we chose to, and or not to learn in our endeavor to come out of our narcissism.

Part two of the book offers insights on the everyday life. It shows the personal life choices such as those of vocation as well as organizational life choices and the choices we make about society. It is in the third part of the book that he talks about God. Here I find a few things that I do not agree with. But generally the writing is honest and heartfelt enough.

Since this is my first book this year, I hope that I will keep up and read more of non-fiction works this year.

This was the third book I read from Dr. Peck, and I can't help but admire the man's insight. Like a great teacher, he oversimplifies things to make a point so it's imperative to keep sight of the overall picture of his thesis.

Outstanding. I also recommend other books from Peck, especially People of the Lie.

Skimmed 60 pages hoping for insight. It seems to be just a rehashing of previous works and not-so-subtle bad theology disguised as a plea for the hard work of thinking. Any writer who attempts to couch a formative concept by cadging from Hamlet’s most quoted phrase is engaging in a sin rightly decried by the author: laziness.

You know the film Eduard scissorhands? The book the creator reads eduard while building him at the begining? Boring as fuck.Nothing new. Well yes, there's evil in the works cause God is busy letting us be. And God is learning too. The writer doesn't contemplate humans being stupid, just human being unconscious. Isnt there a big difference? Maybe not. Can't believe I finished this but on the other hand there's a lot of wisdom in the book but it's just theory, you can't say: hey be good and be councious. There must be a road map to doing so. Where is it? Thanks no thanks.

This is one of my favorite books. If there was a course for life, this would be the book to bring.

The Road Less Traveled and Beyond, by M. Scott Peck - about 1 and a half stars; author shamelessly quotes from his own previous titles; the wisdom in it is mostly sound, but it really is a bit of a re-hash

3.5

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