Quotes About Discovery

Freedom, the first-born of science.

To write these things now is to state the commonplaces of history. But to find them out in 1942, to have them break upon you from a June sky, was to suffer a fundamental shock, a derangement in that area of the brain in which stable ideas about humankind and its possibilities are kept.

That was travel, she supposed. A dance across surfaces to see the face of everything and learn the meaning of very little.

We shall now seek that which we shall not find.

Sì: vi sono alcuni che necessariamente smarriscono la strada, poiché per loro non esiste una strada giusta.

romping in pedagogically forbidden territory. They

We have what we seek. We don't have to rush after it. It was there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us.

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

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.

What every man looks for in life is his own salvation and the salvation of the men he lives with. By salvation I mean first of all the full discovery of who he himself really is.

The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words. It is beyond speech. It is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity, but we discover an old unity. My dear brothers and sisters, we are already one. But we imagine we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be, is what we are.

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

For although he is right with us and in and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find Him.

What you fear is an indication of what you seek.

Those who imagine that they can discover special gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.

prayer is to religion what original research is to science

SIT FINIS LIBRI, NON FINIS QUAERENDI

The thing that crushed me was that I had never learned to dance.

What every man looks for in life is his own salvation and the salvation of the men he lives with. By salvation I mean first of all the full discovery of who he himself really is. Then I mean something of the fulfillment of his own God-given powers, in the love of others and of God. I mean also the discovery that he cannot find himself in himself alone, but that he must find himself in and through others.

No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God.

Let this be the ending of the book but by no means the end of the searching.

In one sense we are always travelling, and travelling as if we did not know where we were going. In another sense we have already arrived.

OUR discovery of God is, in a way, God's discovery of us. We cannot go to heaven to find Him because we have no way of knowing where heaven is or what it is. He comes down from heaven and finds us. He looks at us from the depths of His own infinite actuality, which is everywhere, and His seeing us gives us a new being and a new mind in which we also discover Him.

We know by fresh discovery, the deep reality that is our concrete existence here and now and in the depths of that reality we receive from the Father light, truth, wisdom and peace.