Seekers Quotes - Page 12

• If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Doubt, Needs

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• But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Past, True Or False

  Essays Circles (p. 297)

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• To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ignorance, Giving, Intuition

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• Followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone.

  Saint-John Perse

  Wind, Dawn, Gone

  Saint-John Perse, Mary Ann Caws (1982). “Selected Poems”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it

  Al-Kindi

  Wisdom, Appreciation, Truth

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• I'm a bit of a thrill-seeker. I used to race mountain bikes when I was a kid. I did the national circuit for two years.

  Tanc Sade

  Kids, Race, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lonely, Truth, Lying

  1922 Prejudices, 3rd series, ch.14.

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• The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Simple, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• Remove the heavy clothing of your self-definition. You are not woman, you are not American, you are not son, you are not spiritual seeker, executive, teacher, unemployed, you are not wounded, you are not highly respected, you are not productive, you are not blah-blah-blah-blah.

  Jan Frazier

  Spiritual, Teacher, Son

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• A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden.

  Rumi

  Looks, Contemplating

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• How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.637, Modern Library

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• I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, I have to say that truth is what it is. We cannot change it, we cannot transform it. We cannot compromise with it. It is what it is, it has been what it has been, and it will be what it has been. So it doesn't change. What is needed is that we have to change. So, what is the truth? Truth is that you are not this body, this mind; you are not these emotions, intellect or conditionings. Nor you are ego. So what are you ? You are the pure Spirit.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.

  R. C. Sproul

  Running, Jesus, Lost

  Twitter post from Mar 06, 2017

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• I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot think about it, we cannot conceptualize it. Unfortunately at this human level we cannot feel it, we cannot know it. We have to be the spirit to know the truth.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• In God there is no duality. In that Presence "I" and "we" and "you" do not exist. "I" and "you" and "we" and "He" become one.... Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one.

  Mahmud Shabistari

  Spiritual, Unity, Quests

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• The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, "I know." That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Honesty, Ignorance

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.44, Image

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• Blossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Self, Meditation

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• No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Book, Humanity, World

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1970). “God and the State”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Acceptance, Earth Life, Spirituality

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.146, Aum Publications

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• When you take the problems of the world on your shoulders, your body doesn't feel good. It's just that simple. Leave the problems of the world to the individual problem-makers of the world, and you be the joy-seeker that you are.

  Esther Hicks

  Adversity, Simple, Feel Good

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• Busy replying to letters from divers office-seekers. They come by the dozens.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Office, Dozen, Letters

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.512, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Many spiritual seekers who say their wish is to awaken don't actually want what they believe they do. This becomes clear sometimes at the approach to the brink of what feels like a void, where the obliteration of the egoic self seems imminent. With a shocked recognition of what is being asked, the person will recoil. The scale of the loss-the dissolution of the familiar self-is beyond what was bargained for.

  Jan Frazier

  Spiritual, Believe, Loss

  Jan Frazier (2012). “The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is”, p.63, Weiser Books

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• Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.

  Clement Greenberg

  Light, Different, Levels

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.11, Beacon Press

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• The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lonely, Truth, Honesty

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.15, Vintage

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• If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating.

  Brian Boitano

  Cameras, Skating, Flash

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