The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
M Scott Peck - Feelings - Value - Mental Health - Discipline - Self

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
M Scott Peck - Mental Health - Problem - Growth - Spirit

Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared.. an unbelievably real person.
M Scott Peck - Jesus - Lonely - Sorrow - Fear

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
M Scott Peck - Self - Growth - God - Goals - Evolution

See also M. Scott Peck Biography