M. Scott Peck Quotes

We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

There are a few places around the country, north shore of Oahu would be one that I would point to, where people really look out for each other; it's a real local sort of a place and once you're in that sort of ohana, or that family, everybody kind of looks out for each other.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

We're all connected, related, part of one another's lives through the stories we tell ourselves and each other. For good and for bad.

The Canadians kind of look out for each other a little bit.

All political order presupposes a pre-political order, a sense that people belong together. And then, of course, they might seek a contract that embodies their togetherness. But the togetherness has to be there.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's the entire world in which we operate.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.

Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are. A story composite personality which grows out of its community. It maintains a stability within that community, providing common knowledge as to how things are, how things should be -- knowledge based on experience. These stories become the conscience of the group. They belong to everyone.

The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture.

Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.

We are all part of one another.

A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.

We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.