The Road Less Traveled
    A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
M. Scott Peck, M.D.

Balancing

- Balancing
    - Type of discipline required to discipline discipline
    - Examples:
        - Complete honesty vs. withholding truth
        - Total responsibility for ourselves vs. rejecting responsibility not ours
        - Delay gratification vs. living joyously
    - Balancing gives us flexibility
- Anger
    - Need to know when to express it, when not to express
    - Sometimes express anger coldly/calmly, sometimes loudly/hotly
    - Elaborate, flexible response system is required
- Mature mental health demands extraordinary capability to strike/re-strike delicate balance between conflicting needs, goals, duties, responsibilities
- Balance is discipline because giving something up is painful
    - Giving up personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, etc.
        - Major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life

Balancing is a sort of discpline that is required in striking a balance between two extremes.    It is required in order to exercise all of the other forms of discipline and provides us with flexibility, though it may be difficult and painful to achieve a balance.