I don't know if he's finished yet but a little over a week ago my bro Jermaine was reading:
The Road Less Traveled - by M. Scott Peck
According to Wikipedia:
The Road Less Traveled is a description of the attributes that make for a fulfilled human being, based largely on Peck's experiences as a psychiatrist and a person.
In the first section of the work Peck talks about discipline, which he considers essential for emotional, spiritual and psychological health, and which he describes as "the means of spiritual evolution".
In the second section, Peck considers the nature of love, which he considers the driving force behind spiritual growth.
The final section describes Grace, the powerful force originating outside human consciousness that nurtures spiritual growth in human beings.
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When Jermaine and I talked he was on pg 45 of the book and these were some of his favorite quotes thus far:
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths."
The feeling of being valuable -- "I am a valuable person" -- is a cornerstone of self-discipline. It is a direct product of parental love."
What are these tools, these techniques of suffering, these means of experiencing the pain of problems constructively that I call discipline? There are four: delaying gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing."
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This is a book I would like to read.
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