The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior
lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there,
and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

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Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they
are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our
wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability
to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures.
It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of
others. . . But even more important is the love that arises among
us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up.
Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to
grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community--which
is the only way to achieve international peace--until we learn the basic
principles of community in our own individual lives and personal
spheres of influence.

The Different Drum

The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them
indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their
parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they
truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they
feel valuable.  This knowledge is worth more than any gold.

The Road Less Traveled

Peck is a nationally recognized authority on the relationship between religion and science, and the science of psychology in particular. In 1992 Dr. Peck was selected by the American Psychiatric Association as a distinguished psychiatrist lecturer "for his outstanding achievement in the field of psychiatry as an educator,
researcher and clinician."

Peck, although now "semi-retired," still does some management consulting to top management of organizations in the public, private, and non profit sectors, as well as occasional writing and editing.

In 1984, Peck and his wife met with nine others to establish The Foundation for Community Encouragement, a tax-exempt, nonprofit, public educational foundation, whose mission is to promote and teach the principles of Community. The Foundation (FCE) has seventy selected and trained leaders who conduct workshops for the general public and for organizations as diverse as churches, schools, government agencies, prisons, universities and businesses - throughout the world. Although now both retired from FCE's Board of Directors, the Pecks continue to serve FCE in an "elder" status which represents the rare privilege of
being able to give advice without having any responsibility.

As a result of his pioneering community building work, Dr. Peck is the recipient of the 1984 Kaleidoscope Award for Peacemaking and the 1994 Temple International Peace Prize. In 1996 he was also recipient of The Learning, Faith and Freedom Medal from Georgetown University.