M. Scott Peck Quotes

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but I needed to go back and work on the inside.

I just need to be on the path to my own self-cultivation, my own self-actualisation.

Spirituality means to put your evolutionary process on fast-forward.

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.

Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

In my heart I mean well. But if you help me to grow, then what I have in my heart will begin to show.

The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.

I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.

One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless human asset and one you don't have to pay income tax on!

Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves.

I don't want to go on stage with anger. And that's why I worked so hard to look within and change myself and evolve.

I begin each day with prayer and meditation. Throughout the day, I use affirmations and positive intentions to move through blocks, and each evening, I close the day with self-reflection and an inventory of my growth throughout the day.

Of course there is a lot of things you can work on and change and all that, but first I think you should look at yourself before you actually start trying to find excuse in the other people, whether it's going to be coach, physio, family, or whoever else is on your side.

I've grown and I've matured, and I kind of like that.