Quotes About Seeking

Perron did not clearly hear what Ahmed said, but it sounded like, 'It seems to be me they want.

Bulmasayd?n, aramazd?n beni.

they claimed they were seeking political asylum (from the country known as "the world's biggest democracy").

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.

When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal.

If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so? They were looking only for gold his companion answered. They were seeking the treasure of their personal legend, without wanting actually to live out the personal legend.

Then seek the Truth. Seek always to be on its side, even when it brings you pain. There are times when the Truth goes quiet for long stretches, or when it doesn't tell you what you want to hear. That's Sufism.

They were looking only for gold,his companion answered. They were seeking the treasure of their Personal Legend, without wanting actually to live out the Personal Legend.

We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.

WE think that if we just meditated enough or jogged or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that's death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self-contained and comfortable, is some kind of death.

The essence of samsara is this tendency that we have to seek pleasure and avoid pain, to seek security and avoid groundlessness, to seek comfort and avoid discomfort. The basic teaching is that that is how we keep ourselves miserable, unhappy, and stuck in a very small, limited view of reality.

When we stop seeking the familiarity of samsara, when we stop fighting the groundlessness of freedom from imputed meaning, emptiness becomes an experience of awe, of the infinite, of limitless pace.

The mind is always seeking zones of safety, and these zones of safety are continually falling apart.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

I'm pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to see it.

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

nowhere in the crowd that

But how many people will? How many people live in a state of aggressive truth-seeking? The answer is few.