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Love In The Road Less Traveled Scott Peck's view of love in The Road Less Traveled is a correction to what he thought everyone else thought love was. This paper will be an explanation of Peck's beliefs about love, a contrasting view on love, and my personal knowledge of Peck's beliefs. Peck had a very pessimistic and, at times, a contradicting view of what is believed to be "love" and introduced that in his section on the definition of love. Peck (1978) believed "Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words"(page 81). Later on in that same page Peck offers a definition of love as being "The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's personal growth"(page 81). He also breaks down his definition into five comments: First - The definition has a goal or a purpose, Second - The definition given is a circular process, Third - The definition includes self-love as love for the other, Fou!rth - The definition implies effort, and Fifth - The definition implies a "will" to do something rather than just a desire. Peck believes that lots of suffering can be avoided if a person would take the time out to do away with the common misconceptions of
hat love will not last forever and it is not a feeling. However, I disagree because I feel love is the strongest feeling that a person can feel and if it is true love then it can last forever. I think love is a feeling because when you love someone, you get feelings in your body and mind. Thinking about a person can bring on a wave of softness that is often described with love. Or the ever-common butterfly's people often call love. These are all feelings and are often experienced in conjunction with love. Finally, Scott Peck's book The Road Less Traveled is the only book that combats the general feeling that love is forever, and that love does conquer all, and that real love is a sudden thing. Peck offers these as only misconceptions and untruths in the eyes of the definition of real love. Bibliography Works Cited Peck, M. Scott(1978) The Road Less Traveled New York: Simon and Schuster James, King(1976) The BIBLE: King James Version John Schultz Publishers Word Count: 1369 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ the gift of prophecy and knew all about what is going to happen in the future, knew everything about everything, but didn't love others, what good would it do?"(First Corinthians 13:2-4) The verses go on from there each, at the end, stating nothing would be valuable without love occurring in your life first. Peck, however, has a less romantic view on how important love really is in life. Peck believes love is important but too much love can lead to dependency. Peck is actually the opposite of what the Bible is stating. He believes that a person should first love himself or herself before they can love anyone else. Dependent people are not ready for the "grown up aspects" of love: the hurt, the suffering, or the unhappiness. "The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution"(page 106). The Bible believes that love is the one reliable thing in life. A person is to forsake all other things in the name of love. First Corinthians 13:8 states, "All the special gifts! thout effort on our parts…"(pag
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