title: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition : A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
author: M. Scott, M.D. Peck
description: Written in a voice that is timeless in its message of understanding, The Road Less Traveled continues to help us explore the very nature of loving relationships and leads us toward a new serenity and fullness of life. It helps us learn 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, as in the famous opening line of his book, Life is difficult and that the journey to spiritual growth is a long one, Dr. Peck never bullies his readers, but rather guides them gently through the hard and often painful process of change toward a higher level of self-understanding.
zlib_text: The Road
  Less Traveled,
  25th Anniversary Edition
  A NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF LOVE, 
  TRADITIONAL VALUES AND SPIRITUAL 
  GROWTH
  M. SCOTT PECK, M.D.
  A Touchstone Book Published by Simon & Schuster New York • London • 
  Toronto • Sydney
  INTRODUCTION
  
  Introduction to the 25th Anniversary Edition
  Tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what 
  we have thought and felt all the time.
  —Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self 
  Reliance"
  The most common response I have received to The Road Less Traveled in 
  letters from readers has been one of gratitude for my courage, not for saying 
  anything new, but for writing about the kind of things they had been thinking 
  and feeling all along, but were afraid to talk about.
  I am not clear about the matter of courage. A certain kind of congenital 
  obliviousness might be a more proper term. A patient of mine during the 
  book's early days happened to be at a cocktail party where she overheard a 
  conversation between my mother and another elderly woman. Referr