The book provides new veiwpoints on spirituality and life.

I had wanted to read this book for a long time. Not as good as the original "The Road Less Traveled" but a good read. I found that his technique on making a decision when in a dilemma very interesting.

peeking into our own selves is always the most scary and the most rewarding. i thought his chapter on religion was a bore, but the rest really helped me take one ugly look at myself and those around me. i was very impressed with it.

I generally do not read books about psychology much less psychoanalysis. However, I found this book to be very insightful. The book is separated into various segments, including discipline, love, growth and religion, and grace. I would definitely say that there were underpinnings of religion in this book which I was surprised to see in a science like psychology. However, there were portions of these various sections that I found applicable to my life and which I found even helpful. For example, the section of the book that describes how "love is separateness" rings very true in my life and what I believe I need to have in a loving relationship. Peck says, "a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved. The genuine lover always perceives the beloved as someone who has a totally separate identity. Moreover, the genuine lover always respects and even encourages this separateness and the unique individuality of the beloved. It is the separateness of the partners that enriches the union. Great marriages cannot be constructed by individuals who are terrified by their basic aloneness (which is to be distinguished from lonliness). Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually seeks to cultivate it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone. It is the return of the individual to the nurturing marriage or society from the peaks he or she has traveled alone which serves to elevate that marriage or that society to new heights."

Another gem by M.Scott Peck!
Must read!

I found myself being disappointed in myself that my views didn't quite line up with the Peck of the first book. This in a way lead me to some great introspection...but I saw some of his characteristics that I recognized in myself and may think that in the next book a whole lot may change in his mind and options...however these are "inner" challenges. Sometimes a published book may not be the place to flaunt your own truths but rather push others to reveal theirs in that way I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the first. However I think he is a great man who as awoken many things in me as well
As seeking in me things I knew I should be working on. It's my personal opinion here. May be wrong may be right just how I felt from this.

Depressed? Feel like the world is against you? You're wrong, and this book will tell you why.

Những suy tư phong phú và sâu sắc, rất đáng làm chất liệu sống.

Example book for aiding and promoting contemplation of personal & spiritual growth.

This is a rather disturbing/ annoying book. Its values and its beliefs and the whole spiritual and christian lectures in between made it insufferable...

I love M Scott Peck - he is a little dotty sometimes - but that just makes him all the more likeable.

I liked at the ending when he suggested that therapists and Psychiatrists should get a spiritual history of their patients.