Quotes About Discovery

Kendimi bildim bileli, bütün günlerimi, haberim olmadan ve nefsime itiraf etmeden, bir insan? aramakla geçirmi? ve bu yüzden bütün di?er insanlardan kaçm??t?m.

How could I long so for someone whose existence I'd only just become aware of? But wasn't it always like this? Some things we never know we need until we find them.

Evden ç?kt?ktan sonra bir ?ey unuttu?unu fark ederek duraklayan, fakat unuttu?unun ne oldu?unu bir türlü bulamayarak haf?zas?n? ve ceplerini ara?t?ran, nihayet, ümidini kesince, akl? geride, ileri gitmek istemeyen ad?mlarla yoluna devam eden bir insan gibi üzüntülüydüm.

Bu alemin tezahürlerini d??ar? vermediklerine bak?p onlar?n manen ya?amad?klar?na hükmedecek yerde, en basit bir be?er tecessüsü ile, bu meçhul alemi merak etsek, belki hiç ummad???m?z ?eyler görmemiz, beklemedi?imiz zenginliklerle kar??la?mam?z mümkün olur. Fakat insanlar nedense daha ziyade ne bulacaklar?n? tahmin ettikleri ?eyleri ara?t?rmay? tercih ediyorlar.

Some things we never know we need until we find them.

Sometimes getting information from him was like unraveling a carpet one strand at a time.

We would never have tracked him down if you hadn't followed him." "Or if Jane hadn't convinced Meredith to tell us where the house is," Tristan said. "Your fiancé is quite a woman." "I know." And she never ceased to amaze him.

Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.

Sabrina Ward Harrison

I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).

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.

The only reason it has been inaccessible is that you are either busy or preoccupied with what is happening outside or far too engaged in your own psychological drama. It is just a lack of attention which has denied people the possibility of discovering what lies within. Turning

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

And the journey on the spiritual path is the greatest journey - no man has climbed a mountain peak higher than this, no man has ever dived into a deeper ocean. The depth of the self is the deepest, and the height is the highest.

The crux of the matter is that you don't yet know who you are. Who you are is not the sum total of accumulations you have made. Everything that you currently know as "myself" is just an accumulation.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.-because you can hardly mention anything I am not curious about.

No one will know who we are... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity - because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity -- because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns—where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.

We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for the text, filling gaps, mending faults. And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder... as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us--the recognition of something we never knew was there...

A walk with a two-year-old is very Zen; it is not about the end but the journey. He needs to pet the dog someone is walking; to roll down the slight incline to the church basement, and then roll again, and again, and again; to remind me of the place where the wasps (he calls them bees) live, then zoom past it.

Marc Aronson