Seeking Quotes
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“I say to myself, go on seeking, be glad for being sensitive, be glad you're able to go beyond the resistance inside you. It is our resistance to what we experience that makes creativity possible. So don't get rid of resistance like that by going around it or trying to eliminate it. Our own limitations put up strong resistance, but it's because of that that we are creators”
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The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.
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To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.
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It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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She stares back into me, as if we are both seeking a humanity that neither of us has.
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I'd overlooked the obvious because my focus had always been elsewhere! All along, this that I had been seeking was already here.
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I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.
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While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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Seeking the kingdom of God leads to joy and happiness.
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Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.
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When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.
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Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.
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Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.
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There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
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This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.
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There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.
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For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.
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When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.
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Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
