Quotes About Seeking

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.

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

There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

There is no enlightened one. There is only the one who is seeking further enlightenment. Proper Being is process, not a state; a journey, not a destination.

to seek peace—you have to decide that you want the answer, more than you want to be right.

Não existe um iluminado. Existe apenas aquele que busca mais esclarecimento. O verdadeiro Ser é um processo, não um estado; uma viagem, não um destino. É a contínua transformação do que conhecemos através do encontro com o que não conhecemos, ao invés de um desesperado apego à certeza que, em todo o caso, é eternamente insuficiente.

There is no enlightened one. There is only the one who is seeking further enlightenment.

Sometimes all that learning, impossible without the failure, leads you to see that aiming your ambition in a different direction would be better (not because it is easier; not because you have given up; not because you are avoiding—but because you have learned through the vicissitudes of your experience that what you seek is not to be found where you were looking, or is simply not attainable in the manner by which you chose to pursue it).

And that's how we live: wandering endlessly, concentrically outward, seeking in others a kindling spark of the love which has long lain, dormant, dark, unstoked in our own deepest souls.

I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.

What you are looking for is what is looking.

Within Zen one seeks nothing. You can gain no merit, no faith is required of you, no savior is necessary, there is no just reward, no choice in all things, nor is there any desire for attainment.

Remote viewers have to be so "neutral" that they flow like water wherever they have to flow in order to seek ground truth. Adding a single thought or desire as to where that should

To seek God means first of all to let yourself be found by him. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He is the God of Jesus Christ. He is your God not because He is yours but because you are His. To choose God is to realize that you are known and loved in a way surpassing anything you can imagine long before anyone had thought of you or spoken your name.

Sara, your work is not to look for the perfect place where only the things you want exist. Your work is to look for the things you want in every place.

think them into being; see them, visualize them, and expect them—and they will be. And you will be guided, inspired, or led to the perfect action that will bring about the process that will lead you to that which you seek . . . and there is a great difference between that which we have spoken and the way most of the world is going about it.

The purpose of your life is Joy. Your objective is to seek joy. Your objective is to find appreciation or pleasure or positive thought from wherever you stand, no matter how you got there. And when you align with that Energy, you are fulfilling your purpose.

You know how it feels when you're someplace and you ask yourself, Why am I here? That's how it is with me all the time. I can't wait to leave. To go from wherever I am to some other place. It never ends.

Too often we think of religion as a far-off, mysteriously run bureaucracy to which we apply for assistance when we feel the need.