Quotes About Seeking

If at some point in your life you adopt an idea or a perception as the absolute truth, you close the door of your mind. This is the end of seeking the truth. And not only do you no longer seek the truth, but even if the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you refuse to open it. Attachment to views, attachment to ideas, attachment to perceptions are the biggest obstacle to the truth.

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

so be proactive in seeking information from many, always prioritizing those who have fresh-lived experience of the job market.

Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born, not the place of your birth, but the place where you seek rebirth. When you no longer have to remember which tale of your own past is true and which is an invention, when you know that you are an invention, then is the time to seek out your home. Perhaps only when you have come to understand that can you finally reach home.

As with clicker-trained animals, deliberate use of intimidation almost certainly moves your learner off the SEEKING circuit and onto the conditioned fear path in the amygdala. You may get compliance, but learning slows way down.

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

Thus we are driven, lost souls, from camp-fire flame to camp-fire flame, know nothing of our next rest and nothing of the journey's aim

For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)...always providing that one has the courage to ask questions, to be dissatisfied, to think with the mind and heart one ACTUALLY has, and not with the mind and heart one is SUPPOSED TO have.

It would be all right if I could pray in this way, or in that other way, if I were just able to give You the only thing You want: not my thoughts and feelings and resolutions, but myself. But that is just what I am unable to do, because in the superficiality of the ordinary routine into which my life is cast, I am a stranger to myself. And how can I seek You, being so distant, how can I give myself up to You, when I haven't been able as yet to find myself?

Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.

Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.

In the Gospels, being a sinner means being lost ... There is no way for man to escape the condition of being lost ... The lost can only be sought and found.

In tthe Gospels, being a sinner means being lost. ... There is no way for man to escape the condition, of being lost ... The lost can only be sought and found.

Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.

La educación es, tal vez, la forma más alta de buscar a Dios.

Thus we see everyone—young and old, women, laborers, professionals, politicians, and actors—seeking the "truth" about their future. This sort of crowd will always find another crowd: sorcerers, soothsayers, astrologers, card readers, prana therapists, and fortune-tellers of all kinds. Those who turn to them are motivated by chance, or hope, or desperation, or as an experiment.

We hear about balance so much we automatically assume it's exactly what we should be seeking. It's not. Purpose, meaning, significance—these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance

It's really a simple process: You ask a great question, then you seek out a great answer.

Seeking miraculous experiences simply for the sake of experiencing the miraculous makes us spiritual drug addicts who simply want to get "high." This book is about learning to love God, not learning to join a spiritual circus. Enthusiasts need to be especially careful to remain true to seeking and loving God rather than searching for new experiences. When we seek "spiritual experiences" for their own sake, they can actually become, and be used for, evil.

If we are seeking glory, honor, and immortality before God, the road to get there is daily and quiet persistence, faithfulness, and obedience.

We are told to seek first the kingdom of God, not seek first marriage.

Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public.

I was the forlorn seeker after a relationship which was always beyond my reach.

Experiences are the gifts from God, but we never seek those directly. You and I are to be seeking. You and I are to be hungering and thirsting after righteousness and then the experiences are the gifts.