Seeking Quotes

The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.

Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

Security comes from earning it-not seeking it.

Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.

Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

I have listened And I have looked With open eyes. I have poured my soul Into the world Seeking the unknown Within the known. And I sing out loud In amazement.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.

The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

One of our greatest challenges as Christians is to be driven by the love of Christ rather than constantly seeking after God's comfort.

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

For when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding. . .

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place

The world is not uni-cultural. We must live together rather than seeking to dominate each other. The people in the world cannot accept domination anymore.

The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.

The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood by all who will read it seeking God's help and being willing to follow it.

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

With our divine connection we are always in touch with the solutions we are seeking.

If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.

Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.

At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality.

Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.