Seekers Quotes - Page 14

• It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

  Vernon Howard

  Reflection, Trying, Useless

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• Spiritual seekers particularly are on a quest to understand life; we want to examine our own lives and find meaning in what we do and who we are. ... We find meaning in the seeking itself. Every step along the way is the Way.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, Quests, Want

  Lama Surya Das (2010). “Letting Go Of The Person You Used To Be”, p.22, Random House

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• That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him or on the seer, the Self, there is a mental vibration 'I' to which all are reduced. Tracing the source of 'I', the primal 'I-I' alone remains over, and it is inexpressible. The seat of Realisation 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. The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise it. There is nothing else to do.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Self, Purpose

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• I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Jobs, Poverty, Life Is

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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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• 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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• What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's no knowing truth. Truth seekers are all charlatans. You can only feel the truth of something.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Knowing, Essence, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart

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

  John Maeda

  Demand, Problem, Higher

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

  Karen Wheaton

  Mystery, Found, Shrouds

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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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