M. Scott Peck Quotes

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

All of us, at different times of life, are looking for answers. It happened to me a decade ago and led me to the path of wanting to know more. I read Osho, Sadhguru, Deepak Chopra, and Parmananda Yogi. I haven't found the ultimate answer. The journey is the answer.

To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.

Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.

I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to achieve the balance necessary for harmonious development... Practice the art of living in this world without losing your inner peace of mind. Follow the path of balance to reach the inner wondrous garden of Self-Realization.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.