The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

M. Scott Peck

Oct 2012 · Random House

About this ebook

'Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.'

A timeless classic in personal development, The Road Less Travelled is a landmark work that has inspired millions. Drawing on the experiences of his career as a psychiatrist, Scott Peck combines scientific and spiritual views to guide us through the difficult, painful times in life by showing us how to confront our problems through the key principles of discipline, love and grace.

Teaching us how to distinguish dependency from love, how to become a more sensitive parent and how to connect with your true self, this incredible book is the key to accepting and overcoming life's challenges and achieving a higher level of self-understanding.

Ratings and reviews

The most confusing aspects of human behaviour that goes unnoticed or, perhaps, tolerated, are identified in this book and guidelines offered towards evolution. This is one of the books on the Top 100 Books every person must read. To everyone who is seeking for spiritual growth, your journey starts here, right within these very pages

This book is brilliantly constructed for mature emotionally involved individual looking for an explanation of life in a simplicity way without being simple

This book is able to grow plants of love in our mind, and strongly able to originate flowers on it, with beautiful contagious smell. This book gave me wonderful perspective.

About the author

A graduate of both Harvard University and Case Western Reserve, Dr Peck served in the Army Medical Corps from 1963 to 1972 and had a private practice in psychiatry from 1972 to 1983. He also devoted much of his time and financial resources to the work of the Foundation for Community Encouragement, a nonprofit organization which he and his wife, Lily, helped found in 1984. His bestselling books include The Road Less Travelled and Beyond, A World Waiting to Be Born, and What Return Can I Make? Dr Peck died in 2005.