The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth. 1978 by
M. Scott Peck, M.D.
Some years ago, I saw a list of books that people most often cited as changing their lives. The top three:
The Fountainhead,
To Kill A Mockingbird, and
The Road Less Traveled. Why is this book "life-changing"? First, Peck addresses eternal problems of
the human condition:
love,
pain,
spirit,
happiness. Second, he follows up on his descriptive explorations of these topics with
practical approaches for realizing
virtue and
happiness in everyday life. Finally, as a
psychiatrist writing for the
secular layman, his observations on
spirituality are accessible to Christian, Jew, pagan, and atheist alike.