Quotes About Seeking

The sunken are always seeking the earth again.

I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

I think the message is that you don't need to go to anywhere else to find what you are seeking.

We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us. —Thomas Merton

The true devotees of God never wear saffron, carry malas (prayer beads), or put on sandalwood. You can't know them unless they want it, and then you can only know them as much as they allow.

you don't need to go to anywhere else to find what you are seeking.

O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.

Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him" (Hebrews 11:6, emphasis added). Call that payoff contentment, satisfaction, peace, or excitement—it all adds up to one word: happiness

You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start. I don't even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment.

Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.

Become a man or woman of prayer...Let your heart and mind be kept close to the principal calling of your life, which is to hunger and thirst after God and His righteousness...Let the thoughts and intents of your heart be shaped and guided by time spent in His presence.

Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it.

Seeking new sensations while violating the sacred first desecrates the self and finally destroys the sensation.

It is a self-evident truth that a person who truly prays and seeks God's wisdom in life recognizes the sovereignty of God and is committed to seeking God's wisdom in life's important choices.

Isi purta fericirea ca pe o masca, iar fata aceea fugise cu masca prin curtea casei ei, si nu era chip sa se duca sa i-o ceara inapoi.

Where are my two precious human books so I may turn their pages, aye?

went to the Rock to hide my face                 And the Rock cried out, "No Hiding Place,                 There's no Hiding Place down here.

La maggior parte di noi non può correre qua e là notte e giorno, parlare con tutti, conoscere tutte le città della terra, non abbiamo tempo, denaro, nemmeno tanti amici. Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l'uomo medio potrà vederne il novantanove per cento sarà un libro.

Salvation belongs unto the LORD: your blessing is upon your people. Selah. 3:8 Salvation belongs to the Lord. Scripture tells us that there are none who seek after God, and that no man can come to the Son unless the Father draws him (John 6:44). We have as much to do with our salvation as Lazarus had to do with his own raising from the dead. It is the Lord who quickens the believer. He makes us come alive, then we respond to His voice.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

I felt in my heart that the further one ventures the better one understands how everything in our life is common, short, and empty; that it is in seeking the unknown in our sensations that we discover how mediocre are our attempts and how soon defeated!

I traveled through the rounds of countless births, Seeking but not finding the builder of this house. Sorrowful is birth again and again. O Housebuilder, you have now been seen, You will build no house again. Your rafters [defilements] have been broken, Your ridgepole [ignorance] shattered. My mind has attained the unconditioned, Achieved is the end of craving.