M. Scott Peck Quotes

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.

You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

But for me I think it's just about taking that time of reflection and contemplation. That's probably my process in every decision that I make: to make sure that I spend time just with myself, and really times of silence and mediation to go through that process; and music is a big part of that as well.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.

Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.

To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to.

This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.