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The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Values, and Spiritual Growth, 25th Anniversary Edition Audible Audiobook – Abridged

M. Scott Peck M.D. (Author, Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 8,259 ratings
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Perhaps no book in this generation has had a more profound impact on our intellectual and spiritual lives than The Road Less Traveled. With sales of more than 7 million copies in the United States and Canada, and translation into more than 23 languages, it has made publishing history, with more than 10 years on The New York Times best seller list.

Told in a voice that is timeless in its message of understanding, The Road Less Traveled continues to enable us to explore the nature of loving relationships and leads us toward a new serenity and fullness of life. It helps us determine how to distinguish dependency from love; how to become a more sensitive parent; and ultimately how to become one's own true self.

Recognizing that "Life is difficult" and that the journey to spiritual growth is a long one, Dr. Peck never bullies his listeners, but gently guides them through the hard and often painful process of change toward a higher level of self-understanding.

Combining profound psychological insight and deep spirituality, this is an audiobook that provides inspiration and understanding.

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    4 hours and 23 minutes
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    M. Scott Peck M.D.
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    M. Scott Peck M.D.
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    October 25, 2002
  5. Language
    English
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    Simon & Schuster Audio
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Listening Length 4 hours and 23 minutes
Author M. Scott Peck M.D.
Narrator M. Scott Peck M.D.
Audible.com Release Date October 25, 2002
Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Abridged
Language English
ASIN B00007CI68
Best Sellers Rank #2,314 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#1 in Psychology & Religion
#6 in Anxiety Disorders (Audible Books & Originals)
#15 in Religious Studies (Audible Books & Originals)

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"...It seems simple enough, invite the Holy Spirit to pass through us and shatter our impurities. How do we do that? What are our impurities?..." Read more

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First of all, When I read this book, I felt that this book may be the best book in psychology. This book is really thought provoking. It looks like there are multiple revisions/editions of this book over the period of time. I attached the picture of the soft cover one that I read. This book was recommended by one of my friends and then I also found some good ratings about this book. This book will give you a nice glimpse of your personality and will also make you realize that you can take control of your life. It is a good read for all age groups. The book starts with the tools/techniques of suffering, the discipline - to experience the pain of problems constructively. These four tools are: delayed gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing. The author says that the life problems cannot be avoided in life. To experience happiness, they need to be identified and solved. One of my favorite quote from the books is "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." It took me some time to read this book as it is thought provoking and the thoughts need to be processed and digested before proceeding further.If this review helped you and you plan to experience the "The Road Less Traveled" journey, then have fun on this beautiful journey of greater self-understanding and spiritual growth.
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Barbara S. Reeves
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is one deserving a second or a third read!
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2011
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"The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck is a book that I will read more than once, which is the highest compliment that I can give. It was first published in 1978 and has sold 7 million copies. This is a spiritual and intellectual masterpiece covering topics such as discipline, love, growth and religion, and grace. The fact that his very first fan letter was from someone who assumed that Dr. Peck was a life-long member of Alcoholics Anonymous is reason enough for the recovering addict or alcoholic to read this book.

Dr. Peck has much to say about honesty in the section about discipline. He states that a life of total dedication to the truth means first, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination, second, a willingness to be personally challenged, and thirdly, it means a life of total honesty. Of people who live this life of total honesty he says, "Through their openness they can establish and maintain intimate relationships far more effectively than more closed people. Because they never speak falsely they can be secure and proud in the knowledge that they have done nothing to contribute to the confusion of the world, but have served as sources of illumination and clarification. Finally they are totally free to be. They are not burdened by any need to hide. They do not slink around in the shadows. They do not have to construct new lies to hold old ones. They need waste no effort covering tracks or maintaining disguises. And ultimately they find that the energy required for the self-discipline of honesty is far less than the energy required for secretiveness. The more honest one is, the easier it is to continue being honest, just as the more lies one has told, the more necessary it is to lie again. By their openness, people dedicated to the truth live in the open, and through the exercise of their courage to live in the open, they become free from fear."

In the section on love, Dr. Peck maintains that true spiritual growth can be achieved only through the persistent exercise of real love. And true love is not a feeling, it's an action. Most of what we call love is just plain dependency, a force that causes people to fiercely attach themselves to one another. But this type of love constricts and traps rather than liberates, and if you expect another person to make you happy, you'll be endlessly disappointed.

Among many other illuminating ideas is his notion that God resides in our unconscious, that our unconscious mind is God, and that this is no different than the Christian concept of the Holy Spirit dwelling within us. Interesting.

I could go on and on about this book. It's one that has significantly altered my view of life and my place in this world. I would like to thank Dr. Peck for sharing these illuminating insights with us.

David Allan Reeves
Author of "Running Away From Me"
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Theofile
5.0 out of 5 stars Even Better After 35 Years
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2019
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I first read The Road Less Traveled some 35 years ago. I find rereading it certainly worthwhile after fathering 3 children and living an adult life. It hasn't been easy, and the first line certainly still applies, "Life is difficult." Scott's book provides many valuable insights, perhaps the most valuable is recognizing the purpose of life, to regain our divinity and become one with God. Frankly, that didn’t stick with me after the first read. Concepts like delayed gratification, discipline and serendipity, among others, did. Also laziness being the fruit of our original sin and affecting many facets of life. Becoming one with God took a while and some other books like The Way of Divine Love written thru Sr. Josefa Menendez and This Tremendous Lover by Fr. M. Eugene Boylan. The most influential book, even more than Scott’s, is True Life in God being written thru the Greek Orthodox mystic Vassula Ryden. Over 25 years ago, a friend introduced me to the work and after some reading and discernment; I concluded that God is the author.

There is one part of the work that really addresses this becoming one with God. It’s called the Odes of the Holy Trinity. I call it God’s discourse on mystical marriage. There are other mystics who have tried to describe this process, mystics like St. John of the Cross and St. Theresa of Avila. I personally find reading them difficult, not so the Odes. For example, in the Ode of the Father, He writes:

Scriptures say: "happy the pure in heart, they shall see God;" today, Vassula, everyone sees as far as they are able to see, but I am telling you all, you too could be counted among My saints who are fit to see Me if you allowed My Holy Spirit to pass through you to shatter all your impurities, and once purity is acquired, the vision of Myself will be given you;

It seems simple enough, invite the Holy Spirit to pass through us and shatter our impurities. How do we do that? What are our impurities? Maybe that’s what Scott was talking about, this work and struggle of life. Ah, but the reward is out of this world, to be one with God, to become Love itself. Veni Sancte Spiritus!
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Sn
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book with great insight
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2024
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This is an easy read with much good information. I thought the second half was a bit boring.
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Mike
4.0 out of 5 stars Great read, hard to finish due to repetitive ending sections in the final chapter
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2024
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Great book, insightful, introspective, and extremely well-written. Although the final sections in the last chapter were extremely repetitive and just repeating the same thing to fill pages it seems, the ending was hard to read because it was just a repeat of what he’s already told us MANY times throughout the book, it seems he had to meet a certain character count or page count and he need to fill space to finish the book. Other than that, fantastic read full of multiple different components, it has such a wide range of material that it’s hard for me to even explain to people around me what the book is about when they ask me, which is a testament to the incredible amount of substance it contains.
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Mariejoe Raidy
5.0 out of 5 stars A Transformative Journey: "The Road Less Traveled"
Reviewed in France on May 13, 2024
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"The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck is a timeless masterpiece that offers profound insights into life's challenges and the path to personal growth. One of my all time favorites
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Daniela
5.0 out of 5 stars New favorite
Reviewed in Mexico on January 11, 2021
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Loved this book! I couldn't help but agree with the author's point of view many times and it did teach me a thing or two about how I view life and stuff that happened in the past. Gave me a new perspective and I don't experience that often with books.
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Dinu Georgiana Liliana
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in Germany on December 23, 2022
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Amazing book to have if you’re working on the spiritual growth
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5.0 out of 5 stars For those on a road less travelled
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2021
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Over 30 years I've bought many copies of this book that I've given mainly to young people struggling with life and mental health, as it was a book that helped me the most when I was in my 20s struggling with deep depression. The book isn't specifically aimed at young people, it's for everyone, I just happen to have given it mainly to those who are a similar age to me at the time that I read it. Most have said it's really helped them.

I was a little hesitant this time, wondering if it was by now a little dated in content, or they way it's written, but the young man I made this purchase for 2 months ago has just contacted me to tell me that as a self help and guidance book "It's the best I've ever read!" which is wonderful know, and it's not been unusual to receive this kind of response.

I think it's quite easy to read. It's not so simplistic as to have some kind of message on each page, it's a serious book that helps with serious issues in simple language that's easy to understand.

I'm aware of some of the criticisms the book appears to receive in some of the reviews. That the author is Christian, but I was never aware of that when I read it. It isn't overt. Some people question one or two paragraphs that sound like they're based in beliefs rather than solid theory. But Peck is writing from a basis of experience as well as theory, and that is valuable also in counselling sessions - you want someone who has some experience in life! But importantly I think, when you are young and struggling with something in life, you're not so pedantic and critiquing it on it's literary or theoretical merits, you just want help, from a self book!

At the end of the day all that matters, is that you can understand what it's saying, that it makes sense, and makes you think about things in a different way, and that it helps. It may not be for everyone, but when it comes to mental health, there is no 'one-size-fits-all'. But judging by the sales & popularity of this book, it's helped a great many, and it's certainly worth a try! And in my experience, for myself, and for others I've gifted it to over the years, many in their late teens or 20s, most have got something of value from it, and it really has helped.
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Amanda Guimi
5.0 out of 5 stars Psiquiatria
Reviewed in Brazil on April 25, 2019
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Livro excelente para quem se interessa por psiquiatria! Sou apaixonada pelo jeito de escrever do autor, embora não seja uma leitura fácil!
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