Quotes About Seeking

There two things everybody had to do: Go to God and find out what living is for yourself.

I feel I don't face issues because I never seek work actively.

The cold Camellia only, stiff and white, Rose without perfume, lily without grace, When chilling winter shows his icy face, Blooms for a world that vainly seeks delight.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

What happens to a wanderer?" Moses asked Neph. "Does he ever come home?" And Neph answered ruefully that wanderers were those who sought their home – not those who left it. The cryptic intent was not lost on Moses, and when Neph asked him how he felt, he replied, "I am a stranger here.

They who seek God with all their hearts must, however, some day on their way meet Jesus.1

True, this golden friendship is not a common thing to be picked up in the street. It would not be worth much if it were. Like wisdom it must be sought for as for hid treasures, and to keep it demands care and thought.

People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Proprio perché non assomigli a nessuna avrei voluto incontrarti sempre... In qualsiasi posto...

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.

A form of consciousness beyond the veils of discursive thought, a space forever present for those who seek it, not in some far-off wilderness, but in our inner most hearts. When that realization dawns in the depths of one's being, the world effortlessly transforms into that which was sought.

What has he found who has lost God? And what has he lost who has found God?

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

At His door, what is the difference between Moslem and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.

What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway.

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism? Answer: Because he was created to study it; it is his next step.

Definition of a Sufi To learn, people must give up a great deal, and this includes ritual as something from which they imagine they might learn. It is to emphasise this that Abu-Yaqub al-Susi, quoted in Kalabadhi's Taaruf, states that the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

el Sufi es "alguien que no se preocupa cuando le quitan algo, pero que no cesa de buscar lo que no tiene.

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi declara que el Sufi es "alguien que no se preocupa cuando le quitan algo, pero que no cesa de buscar lo que no tiene.