Quotes About Seeking

Just be aware that rational answers aren't necessarily what we're looking for when we produce our questions.

This is one of the principal reasons people seek out spiritual teachers. They figure there is more to most things than meets the eye.

Read Nietzsche. Reject all mainstream religions. Your objective is not to worship God, but to become God. Only God has all the answers to the mysteries of life. Therefore if you truly seek those answers then you are seeking the ultimate secret: how to transform yourself into God. It is precisely with this quest that the Philosopher's Stone and the Holy Grail are intimately involved. That is why they have supreme spiritual power, why they command such enduring fascination.

He was being sought for.

In seeking after what the soul desires we become pilgrims with no home but the path the soul would have us follow.

The home we are looking for in this world is within us all along. The lost home that we are seeking is ourselves; it is the story we carry within our soul.

Islam's all about knowledge, right? Muslims know everything. We seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. We seek knowledge even if it be in China, Yusef, EVEN IN CHINA! And we've reduced our religion to fuckin' academics. The guy who knows Islam best is the one who really hits the books hard, learns his shit. Muslims brag about having no priests but we're getting molested by scholars. Yusef Ali, books are not Allah. Even a book by or from Allah is not Allah.

Palpatine sought power over others. Yoda sought power from within. Palpatine wanted control of everything, in the hopes of building what he thought would be a perfect universe. Yoda gave up the idea of controlling or perfecting the universe, in the hopes of understanding it.

Divinity, not machines. Standing among the sunflowers, I craved divinity.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

Agape love is the decision to keep loving and seeking the best for someone even when we don't feel like it, even when that person sins against us.

The Koran presents Allah as being forever hidden from humanity. The Bible presents Jehovah as drawing near and seeking us out.

Es el sufrimiento de ser el que nos hace buscar al otro, como un paliativo; tenemos que superar esa fase para alcanzar el estado en el que el mero hecho de ser constituye en sí una ocasión permanente de júbilo;

People who constantly seek commitment and security will never taste love. And for those who will always want to own, posses will never get more than less. Love in liberty, live in liberty, let love be eternalized , go all out in love and get MickeyMized.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

The roots of the word "compete" are the Latin con petire, which meant "to seek together.

Proverbs 2:4–5 challenges the body of Christ to seek the Lord as silver. We must gain the knowledge of Him, for there are hidden things that God will only give to the hungry.

Jesus told his disciples that if they leveraged everything to seek the kingdom by following him, everything else would be thrown in as well! In other words, the secret to living the good life, to having it all, is seeking God's kingdom above everything else and becoming an apprentice of Jesus.

Three things take the slave to God's pleasure: 1) Increase in seeking forgiveness 2) Gentleness 3) Increased charity giving

I said, "The thing we quested after is never attained." He said, "The unattainable - that thing is my desire!

You can get there by yourself, but that is the hard way. Our personal goals all lead to the same end. There is only one truth. But why deny the thousands of years of experience found in religion? There is real wisdom available from so many years of seeking and trial and error.

Desires may be different from individual to individual, but the end and the destinations are always the same for the majority of people seeking fame.

From young age to adulthood, love is all about seeking interest in your partner. Pure love only comes in old age, when all the fire of youth is extinguished.

Human desires cannot be extinguished. Even Buddha, with all his sweet teachings, is not immune to seeking fame and followers. Thus, leaving behind a continuing legacy.