Seekers Quotes - Page 15

• There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Wake Up, Eternal

  "Circling: 1978-1987". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "Light Bugs", Chapter: "Hegemonikon", p. 27), May 21, 2012.

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• The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first, to let it in and, second, how to do so. The first beginning of this is to remember. The second is to recognize the inward pull. For the rest, the stillness itself will guide and lead him to itself.

  Paul Brunton

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Learning

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• Once asked if he felt wearied by the constant onslaught of autograph seekers, actor Gregory Peck replied that he would be more worried when they stopped asking.

  Christopher Lee

  Would Be, Asking, Actors

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• The window of heaven is what all truth seekers are trying to open.

  Harold Klemp

  Heaven, Trying, Window

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• American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos.

  Eric G. Wilson

  Believe, Ego, World

  Eric G. Wilson (2008). “Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy”, p.25, Macmillan

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• How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Adventure, Climbing, Standards Set

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• The quest for Love changes us. There is no seeker among those who search for Love who has not matured on the way. The moment you start looking for Love, you start to change within and without.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Love You, Looking For Love, Quests

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• The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

  Brian Tracy

  Risk, Comfort

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 15, 2012

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• This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.

  David Weinberger

  Idiot, Best Times

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• ...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.

  Antonio Guterres

  Children, Moving, People

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• A seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a sage appeared bearing the answer to the secret. The sage said simply: "Stretch out your hand and reach what you can." "No, it can't be that simple," the seeker said. And the sage said softly, "You are right, it is something harder. It is this: Stretch out your hand and reach what you cannot." Now that's vision.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Dream, Simple, Night

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• Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender; when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Sweet, Artist, Light

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• All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Writing, Learning

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

  Walter Isaacson

  Spiritual, Important, Enlightenment

  "Steve Jobs’s ‘journey for enlightenment’". Interview with Sally Quinn, www.onfaith.co.

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• The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred by Guy Finley is a very wise book, filled with inspiration to help you dramatically improve your life. I highly recommend it.

  Daniel Amen

  Wise, Book, Inspiration

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• Who is an authentic seeker, but someone who has understood that there is nothing else to do but practice? Enthusiastic or discouraged, he or she continues, no matter what.

  Lee Lozowick

  Practice, Matter, Discouraged

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• The True Seeker must, before all else, cleanse his heart.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart

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• Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you can live in your home safely. But seeker beware! A fully enlightened Buddhist teacher is an arsonist! His job is to set your spirit on fire...by feeding the flames of your soul with love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Jobs

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• GOD Has Planted in Your Heart [ ] The Desire To Search For HIM. Do Not Look At Your Weaknesses But Focus on The Search. Every Seeker is Worthy of This Search. Strive To Redouble Your Efforts, So That Your Soul May Escape From This Material Prison.

  Rumi

  Heart, Effort, Focus

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• The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dust, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

  Michael Foley

  Believe, Silence, Solitude

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beautiful, Mother, Flower

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.342

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• The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth is a gift. To have to receive offends those who have determined to take.

  Louis Mackey

  Historical, Principles, Determined

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• I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Fire, Self, Secret

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