Seeking Quotes (page 3)

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• earth
• seek
• seeks

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven. George William Russell

• time
• moving
• art

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. Martha Beck

• good
• seeks
• goodness

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments. Timothy Radcliffe

• good
• mind
• loss

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. Francis Bacon

• understanding
• believe
• may

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. Saint Augustine

• lies
• your life
• everyday

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday. Ian Anderson

• joy
• painting
• seeks

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. Mark Akenside

• attitude
• you me
• feeling

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it. James Truslow Adams

• good
• wisdom
• effort

All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power, and your soul power—‘Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.’ (Matt. 7:7.) But you have to seek, you have to knock. On the other hand, sin thrusts itself upon you. It walks beside you, it tempts you, it entices, it allures. You do not have to put forth effort. … Evil seeks you, and it requires effort and fortitude... David O. McKay

• goals
• thinking
• free

When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “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... Herman Hesse

• mindfulness
• sad
• lost

Human-heartedness is man's mind. Righteousness is man's path. How sad that he abandons that path and does not rely on it; that he loses that mind and does not know to seek it. When a man has lost a cock or a dog, he knows to seek it, but having lost his (proper) mind, he does not know to seek it. The Way of Learning is nothing other than seeking the lost mind Mencius

• eyes
• goals
• thinking

When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. Herman Hesse

• sad
• end
• road

He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly. 'Wise counsel,' said the fox of dreams. 'Vegeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it. And...?' 'I shall seek the Buddha,' said the fox, with a toss of her head. 'But first I shall seek revenge. Neil Gaiman

• you me
• beautiful
• strength

Would you seek beauty, seek it underground; Would you find strength - the strong are underground; And would you next year seek my love and me, Who knows but you must seek us - underground? Richard Le Gallienne

• hair
• fire
• manly

Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond. Ramakrishna