Quotes About Seeking

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

The purpose of journeying together in spiritual friendship and spiritual community (whether there are just two of you or whether you are in a small group) is to listen to one another's desire for God, to nurture that desire in each other and to support one another in seeking a way of life that is consistent with that desire.

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own heart.

Believing means you have assumed something that you do not know; seeking means you have realized that you do not know.

I do not know" is the doorway—the only doorway—to seeking and knowing.

becomes pleasant, we call this peace. If it becomes very pleasant, we call this joy. If your emotions become pleasant, we call this love. If they become very pleasant, we call this compassion. If your life energies become pleasant, we call this bliss. If they become very pleasant, we call this ecstasy. This is all that you are seeking: pleasantness within and without

When any being calls or really yearns, the existence answers. If the thirst within you is strong enough, God always answers.

Any fool will seek liberation when he is suffering. It takes enormous intelligence to seek liberation when everything is going well.

The ability to simply look without motive is missing in the world today. Everybody is a psychological creature, wanting to assign meaning to everything. Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.

Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.

Blissfulness means life is happening in an exuberant manner, and that is all that life seeks. So

Everybody is a psychological creature, wanting to assign meaning to everything. Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.

If he is a genuine seeker, anything that happens to him – even the most disastrous thing – is also a plus, because it only annihilates him a little more.

For how could we do what justice requires if we are distracted by things that don't matter, if we are naive, gullible, inconstant? 11. It's the pursuit of these things, and your attempts to avoid them, that leave you in such turmoil. And yet they aren't seeking you out; you are the one seeking them. Suspend judgment about them. And at once they will lie still, and you will be freed from fleeing and pursuing.

I would like to be found. I would like to see. Or to be seen. I wonder if, in the eye of God, it amounts to the same thing.

Overall, people are about twice as likely to seek information that supports their own point of view as they are to consider an opposing idea.19

All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.

All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you're worth.

The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.

Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace.

The reality is that whatever you are looking for is, at the same time, looking for you. It all starts with believing before seeing.

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