Seekers Quotes - Page 11

• Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.

  Dan Wakefield

  Meaningful, Spiritual, People

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• For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance, is a day of New Year. It is the day to review one’s progress on the spiritual path and renew one’s determination and focus on the goal, and to resolve what one wants to do in the coming year

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Spiritual, New Year, Determination

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• Wise, compassionate and accessible, David Benner's The Gift of Being Yourself is truly a gift to the dedicated seeker. The author draws on his professional experience as a psychologist and his own lifelong vocation as a Christian. The result is a book that felicitously weaves together the insights of psychology and Christian spirituality.

  Margaret Guenther

  Christian, Wise, Being Yourself

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• Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Warrior, Long, Design

  Hunter S. Thompson's note to his grandson Will (2005), as quoted in William McKeen "Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson", 2008.

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• Glory is for none but the learned,
  Guided are they - and proofs for seekers of guidance.
  Every person is measured based on how much of it (knowledge) he mastered,
  The ignorant are to the learned their enemies,
  Succeed with knowledge and live energetically forever,
  Men are all dead, only the possessors of knowledge are truly alive

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.

  Muhammad

  Islamic, Holy Prophet, Silence

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• By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Jesus, Meditation, India

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• Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure. Most spiritual seekers move away from this insecurity by seeking and striving for a distant spiritual goal. That's how they avoid feeling insecure.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Moving, Insecure

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• I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Passion, Names, Passionate

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

  Bell Hooks

  Book, Passion, Ideas

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• 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.

  Adyashanti

  Life, Thinking, Awakening

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

  Jon Krakauer

  Reality, Hopeless Romantic, Publicity

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.

  Anna Wintour

  Taken, Order, America

  "Ashley Tisdale beats Ashlee Simpson by a nose", www.today.com. January 21, 2008.

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• The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Long

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• If you yearn for holy felicity,
  shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.

  Rumi

  Heart, Arrogance, Holy

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences

  Deepak Chopra

  People, Ordinary, World

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life”, p.116, Random House

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• Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

  Rumi

  Heart, Love Is, Tests

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• The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Realization, Bliss

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Morning, Jobs, Work

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Yunus from Dec 05, 2012

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• Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Mean

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• If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Meditation

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• I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me.

  Natalie Merchant

  Travel, Eye, Sight

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• It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Pain, Yoga

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• Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Difficult Times, Pleasure, Worthwhile

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