Quotes About Seeking

Sometimes the attempt to strenghten contact with the divine is a journey.

Remember always that what you are seeking is also seeking you.

THE SECOND TEACHING OF ST. FRANCIS IS that we find God when we become poor enough for God to find us.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

I will lay my hand upon the flow of time, if need be, that you shall have however much of it you seek.

You are a serious person, but your seriousness is attached to what you do, not to what goes on outside you. You dwell upon yourself too much. That's the trouble. And that produces a terrible fatigue. But what else can anyone do, don Juan? Seek and see the marvels all around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else.

The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.

Uno siempre busca en el presente o en el futuro respuestas que están en el pasado.

Tell me you came here for me.

Pilgrimage is extroverted mysticism, just as mysticism is introverted pilgrimage

Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.

It always seems to me that I should feel well in the place where I am not.

I get so many messages from people seeking advice to mend their relationship.

I think people, whether they realize they're doing it or not, seek out distractions to take their minds off what they know is bad behavior.

Like every species on Earth, we are always seeking the ideal conditions that will allow us to live to our fullest potential

Beauty and goodness are there in each of us. A true spiritual partner is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you've been seeking. A true teacher is someone who helps you discover the teacher in yourself.

Had many men spent but half that time in secret prayer, that they have spent in seeking after the philosopher's stone, how happy might they have been!

We shall now seek that which we shall not find.

Truth, and the freedom to seek it, are not luxury-products which enervate a people and unfit them for the struggle of life. They belong to life, they are life's daily bread.

The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.

We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore in that sense we have arrived and are dwelling in the light. But oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!

If you find God with great ease, perhaps it is not God you have found.

In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.

If you persist in trying To attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift!) If you persist in making effort To obtain what effort cannot get; If you persist in reasoning About what cannot be understood, You will be destroyed By the very thing you seek.