M. Scott Peck Quotes

But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

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• But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

  

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