Seeking Quotes - Page 29

• Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

  Adi Da

  Wisdom, Self, Perfect

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• I have observed in my 30 years in Washington that when a President initiates a major policy speech on a controversial issue while Congress is in recess, it usually is because what he is advocating is indefensible and that he is seeking to minimize criticism.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Issues, Years, President

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• Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod.

  Pope Leo X

  Prayer, Judging, Vineyards

  "Exsurge Domine" by Pope Leo X, June 15, 1520.

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• Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

  John Carroll

  Men, Destruction, Variety

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• One of the greatest problems for international journalists covering the Middle East is that people who serve as guides for journalists are often affiliated with Islamic terrorists seeking to turn for foreign visitors against Israel.

  Caroline Glick

  Islamic, Israel, People

  "Live from NY’s 92nd Street Y Continues". www.vaildaily.com. October 07, 2007.

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• So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating war in Afghanistan and maintaining over 850 military bases around the world, the administration has run up the national debt that Smith decried. By shifting the tax burden off property and off rent-seeking monopolies - above all, off the financial sector - this policy has raised America's cost of living and doing business, thereby undercutting its competitive power and running up larger and larger foreign debt.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, Military, War

  "Adam Smith Critiques the Deficit Reduction Commission". Personal website, michael-hudson.com. December 06, 2010.

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• There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render one's self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Two, Self, Useless

  Quoted by Richard Foster in "Renovare perspective", Vol. 7, No. 2, April 1997.

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• Don't seek approval. This may be the toughest suggestion for you to follow -- and the most important. Whether you'te a teenager seeking approval from your peers, a middle-aged parent seeking the approval of your kids, or a man or woman seeking the approval of a partner, it all amounts to the same thing. You're giving your personal power away every time you seek validation from someone else for who you are.

  T. J. MacGregor

  Teenager, Kids, Men

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• Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being out by Hollywood, the narratives are similar: a highly intelligent villain with offshore interests and a past both are seeking to cover up who had a powerful father and is set on pillaging society.

  Chris Lehane

  Powerful, Father, Intelligent

  "Romney's new foe: Batman's 'Bane'". www.washingtonexaminer.com. July 16, 2012.

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• You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking. [...] Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win. I believe (Rumsfeld) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore.

  George Clooney

  Suicide, Revenge, War

  "Good Night and Good Luck". www.abc.net.au. December 9, 2005.

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• Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the profoundest ignorance of history could prevent one from recognizing this. For the truth is that religion and irreligion are cultural variables, but killing is a human constant.

  David Bentley

  Religious, Powerful, Ignorance

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• You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.

  Richard Baxter

  Children, Sweat, Giving

  Richard Baxter, Benjamin Fawcett, Samuel Turell Armstrong (1811). “The Saint's Everlasting Rest, Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Heaven”, p.231

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• Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Never Settle, Action, Easy

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• You are only as powerful as that for which you stand. Do you stand for more money in the bank and a bigger house? Do you stand for an attractive mate? Do you stand for imposing your way of thinking upon others? These are the stands of the personality seeking to satisfy its wants. Do you stand for perfection, for the beauty and compassion of each soul? Do you stand for forgiveness and humbleness? These are the stands of the personality that has aligned itself with its soul. This is the position of a truly powerful Personality.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Powerful, Thinking

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures.

  Lee Wulff

  Men, Sea, Fishing

  Lee Wulff (1986). “Trout on a fly”, Lyons Press

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• Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Juan

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• There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Stories

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• The source of their motivation ranges from what you might expect - from the seeking of money and publicity, to those who genuinely suffer from chronic personal problems and have fixated on me as the cause of their frustrations and failures.

  Frederick Lenz

  Motivation, Buddhism, Frustration

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• There are people I feel in other parts of the world who will never meet me or hear my name. They are probably better off. I help them inwardly. I feel their souls seeking light, and I help all who come.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Names

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• The average individual spends many, many lifetimes meditating and seeking and chewing bubblegum and doing things like that to attain the experience of samadhi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Average, Lifetime, Individual

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• We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?

  John Keegan

  School, Government, Sea

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• The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

  Sallust

  Wisdom, Men, Politics

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• What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Discovery

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• What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for reassurance in the eyes of others. Look for reassurance in your own eyes. Only you know if Buddhist practice is improving the quality of your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Fun, Eye

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• What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, America

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