M. Scott Peck Quotes

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

It is time to search out your uniqueness, applaud and acknowledge yourself, and let your own light shine.

Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.

…we’re all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we’re all blessed by our own seed & golden hairy naked accomplishment (Sunflower Sutra)

To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.

Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to become.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

I tried to be a better person for her– but it was to impress her, to get her to want me. But when I’m around you, I want to be better because… well, because it feels right. Because I want to. You make me want to become something greater than myself. I want to excel. You inspire me in every act, every word, every glance. I look at you, and you’re like… like light made into flesh. […] You have no clue how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.

I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart has the capacity to spread its fragrance of oneness-light all around you.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.

Live according to your highest light and more light will be given.