Quotes About Seeking

truth and reread it daily: "When you seek happiness for yourself it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for others you will find it yourself." Practice making meaningful

Saint Francis. "When we pray to God," he said, "we must be seeking nothing—nothing.

You who seek God, apart, apart The thing you seek, thou art, thou art. If you want to seek the Beloved's face. Polish the mirror, gaze into that space. These words were written by Rumi as a tribute for his master guru Shams of Tabriz.

When approval-seeking is the guiding principle of life, it's virtually impossible to achieve a loving relationship with another human being.

Gradually, as more and more of our needs are met, we discover a crucial truth: that we are the most influential, effective and powerful person who can help us get what we need. The more we realize this, the more we can seek out, ask for and actually realize our needs.

Some people have a talent for being happy and others appear to find unhappiness almost as if they sought it.

It is worth emphasizing, therefore, that it is precisely comprehension in reading that this book seeks to improve. You cannot comprehend a book without reading it analytically; analytical reading, as we have noted, is undertaken primarily for the sake of comprehension (or understanding).

Blessed are those who thirst after righteousness.

We can seek, we can find, if we open our minds.

We shall advance when we have learned humility; when we have learned to seek truth, to reveal it and publish it; when we care more for that than for the privilege of arguing about ideas in a fog of uncertainty.

The thing she realised in that moment, that fraction of waiting, was lost. Nothing could bring the thing back, no words could make the thing solid and visible and therefore to be coped with. Solid and visible form was what she had been seeking. I will put this into visible language.

Let us search the old highways.

No monastery has been successful at producing enlightenment. It has been tried; there are no shortcuts.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

Kalau kita tidak mencarinya, kita tidak akan menemukannya, dan kemampuan kita tetap tersembunyi. Pada akhirnya, kita hanya melihat keterbatasan-keterbatasan, bukan kemungkinan-kemungkinan.

If one wants anything, one should seek it from God, the Sovereign of the heavens and the earth. The basic rule is to ask God and then work; that is, one should utilize the means (asb?b) that one must use in order to achieve something in this world.

Imam M?lik said that to seek out Paradise is more than acceptable, though the motivation behind worship should ultimately be solely for the sake of God and fulfillment of His commands.

Along with the provision that God gives, He also has provided the means (asb?b) by which one must seek out his provision. One person may be in possession of a meal that is meant for another, who then is invited to the former's home for that very meal. So a person never loses anything by feeding a guest. It is a provision meant for that guest, which was already decreed by God.

One would think there was enough unavoidable tragedy in everyone's existence to keep him from seeking the hideous and unsightly," he mused. "And yet it may be the fact that each has his cross to bear that leads him to come in contact with the world's wretchedness as a sort of palliative to his own."[11]

The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.

He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal.

Ich suchte und konnte Dich nicht finden; ich rief vom Minarett laut nach Dir; ich läutete beim Steigen und Sinken der Sonne die Tempelglocke; ich tauchte vergeblich in des Ganges heiligen Strom; ich kam enttäuscht von der Kaaba zurück; ich sah mich auf Erden nach Dir um; ich suchte nach Dir im Himmel, mein Geliebter, doch endlich habe ich Dich gefunden – als verborgene Perle in der Muschel meines Herzens.

Do we feel God's presence because we are looking for him, or do we feel it because he is looking for us?

Perhaps spirituality is another word for curiosity.