Seekers Quotes - Page 16

• Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Hands, Progress

  "Homo Neanderthalensis Baltimore Sun". "The Impossible Mencken" by H. L. Mencken, June 29, 1925.

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• Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  God, Thinking, Cities

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• No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Sacred, Facts

  Essays Circles (p. 297)

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• The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the new Priestly caste. The alternative Church of our society, the Jews, survived in abeyance for hundreds of years. As long as the Christian Church attended to the discourse, the Jews plainly had no chance to compete; but when its power was broken by liberty-seekers, the alternative arrangement came forward.

  Israel Shamir

  Christian, Years, Long

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• This is who I am
  Escapist
  Paradise Seeker
  Farewell, time to fly
  Out of sight
  Out of time
  Away from all lies

  Tuomas Holopainen

  Lying, Farewell, Sight

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• I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

  Bruce Feiler

  Adventure, White, Russia

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• We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth...

  Albert Pike

  Art, Stars, Spring

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.

  Berton Braley

  Hammers, Steel, May

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• Nor shall the seeker reach his goal unless he sacrifice all things. That is, whatever he has seen, and heard, and understood (before), all must he set at naught, that he may enter the Realm of the Spirit, which is the City of God.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Sacrifice, Cities, Goal

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• The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Desire, Quests, Unions

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• Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire failure. We desire light, a beacon to show the world that our wealth need not show the way to more rapid destruction, but can be leveraged to heal more acres, more backyards, more communities faster than any civilization on the right path has ever done it.

  Joel Salatin

  Country, Humble, Civilization

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• Make up your mind that you will become the seeker of your own higher self.

  Ma Jaya

  Self, Mind, Higher

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• We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced-and sometimes strongly-by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.

  August Krogh

  Truth, Science, Ideas

  August Krogh (1959). “The anatomy and physiology of capillaries”

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• Seekers are all following some distant star, and eventually will come to recognize that this star resides in their very core.

  T. Thorn Coyle

  Stars, Following, Core

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• Stripped of all its outer encrustations, spirituality emerges as a science, as scientific as any other, as verifiable in its results. Let any seeker take it up and let him create in the laboratory of the soul the conditions that are prerequisite; as sure as the day follows the night shall he rise into the Kingdom of God.

  Kirpal Singh

  Spiritual, Night, Journey

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• As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.

  Robert Breault

  Jobs, Experience, Done

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• Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.

  John Maeda

  Demand, Problem, Higher

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• Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they think they can get. Set your sights higher.

  Bob Proctor

  Thinking, Sight, People

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Feb 15, 2017

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• The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Struggle, Challenges

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• The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Book, Men, Yield

  Matthew Henry, J. Gill, Arthur W. Pink (2001). “Exposition of I and II Samuel”, p.197, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being. It burns everything else and leaves you standing naked, alone under the sun, in the wind. It is as if you are the first man who has descended onto earth—who knows nothing, who has to discover everything, who has to be a seeker, who has to go on a pilgrimage.

  Rajneesh

  Cutting, Men, Wind

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• Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Other Worlds, Illusion

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• God shrouds himself in mystery so He can be found by true seekers.

  Karen Wheaton

  Mystery, Found, Shrouds

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• I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Believer, Mysticism

  "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.

  Matisyahu

  Spiritual, Growing Up, Past

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