© Silver Lining Of Your Cloud 2014
Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Seeking
You’ve been walking in circles,
Searching. Don’t drink by
the water’s edge. Throw
yourself in. Become the water.
Only then will your thirst end.
~Jeanette Berson
Do not seek the truth; simply cease cherishing illusions. ~Zen master Seng-
t’san
That which you are seeking is always seeking you. ~anonymous sage
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the
question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. ~ Pierre Abelard
The ultimate goal of spiritual seeking is beyond these different levels of
mental existence. The ultimate goal is integration with ultimate reality, with
the purely spiritual dimension of existence, which is nirvana, the state of
absolute enlightnment. ~Haridas Chaudhuri
All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is
to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your
attention inward to the awake silence that you are. ~Adyashanti
seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth is here.
~e. e. cummings
Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand–relax. If you
relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.
~Osho
Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions,
preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with
the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come
that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the
pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a
memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers. ~Peter Matthiessen
An older student came to Otis and said, “I have been to see a great number of
teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures. I have fasted, been
celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment. I have given up
everything I was asked to give up and I have suffered, but I have not been
enlightened. What should I do?” Otis replied, “Give up suffering.” ~Camden
Benares
When the mind is no longer seeking,
no longer breeding conflict
through its wants and cavings,
when it is silent with understanding,
only then can the immeasurable come into being.
~J. Krishnamurti
There is a place which one cannot reach by going anywhere. ~Hazrat Inayat
Khan
Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood,
rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is all like a
monkey grasping at the moon reflected in the water. ~Shoitsu
What you seek is already within you. You uncover it by shedding all that is
untrue within you. ~Sampo Kaasila
It’s a pathless path because it’s unique to each seeker and keeps changing as
the journey unfolds. Even more essentially, it isn’t really a path at all, because
there’s nowhere to go and nothing to discover; everything you need to know
and be is right here and now–indeed, it is the very here and now that you are.
~Stephan Bodian
The cave that you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek. ~Joseph
Campbell
All spiritual seeking begins with the questions, ‘Who am I? Where did I come
from? Where am I going? What is the true essence of my being?’ ~Haridas
Chaudhuri
It’s not drawn on any map; true places never are. ~Herman Melville
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of god, when you want nothing,
seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme state will come to you
uninvited and unexpected. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Seekers continue to practice all kinds of self-torture without realizing that such
‘spiritual practice’ is a reinforcement of the very ego that prevents them from
their natural, free state. ~Ramesh Balsekar
In the gradual approach you are bound to the mind. The mind is under the
illusion that if it changes, alters, stops, etc., it will be absorbed in what is
beyond it. This misconception leads to the most tragic state in which a truth-
seeker can find himself: he has bound himself in his own web, a web of the
most subtle duality. ~Jean Klein
Having never left the house, you are looking for the way home. ~Vedic saying
I have an existential map; it has ‘you are here’ written all over it. ~Stephen
Wright
As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not
reality itself. ~Shunryu Suzuki
If you want to be free, get to know your real self. It has no form, no
appearance, no root, no basis, no abode, but is lively and buoyant. It responds
with versatile facility, but its function cannot be located. Therefore when you
look for it you become further from it; when you seek it you turn away from it
all the more. ~Rinzai
My only hope for you as a seeker wishing to find your way back home, is to
burn the map you’re following, and realize what you already are. ~Matt Kahn
If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don’t
seek, how are you different from earth, wood or stone? You must seek without
seeking. ~Fo-Yan
Seeking is simply a game that is played until the recognition that there is
nothing to find. ~Unmani Liza Hyde
If you try to aim for it, you are turning away from it. ~Zen master
Give up the search for something to happen and fall in love, fall intimately in
love with the gift of presence in ‘what is.’ ~Tony Parsons
You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.
~Werner Erhard
You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out its own secret. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
The longing to go back to the source is present in each being from the very
time that it is separated from the source by the veil of ignorance. ~Meher Baba
Everything we are looking for is right here in the present moment. ~ Thich
Nhat Hanh
The real seeker of truth never seeks truth. On the contrary, he tries to clean
himself of all that is untrue, inauthentic, insincere – and when his heart is
ready, purified, the guest comes. ~Osho
Why is it so difficult to find God? It is because you are looking for something
you have never lost. ~Osho
How am I to aspire to You when You are behind every aspiration?
How am I to seek You when seeking itself signifies being distant?
Can One who is ever-close, ever-present, be sought?
~Ibn ‘Arabi
Truth is not far away; it is ever present. It is not something to be attained,
since not one of your steps leads away from it. ~Dogen
Remember it is not only you who are seeking truth–truth is also seeking you.
~Osho
Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived.
You are standing on the goal. Don’t ask about the path. ~Osho
Be honest dear heart,
broken and abashed,
how can you still chase love?
~Rumi
Do not seek the answers. Let the answers find you. ~Leonard Jacobson
There’s no quenching of the spiritual thirst. It’s just that it disappears when
you see through the illusion of a lack of intimacy with existence. ~Adyashanti
We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the
realization that love is what we already are. ~ Byron Katie
Seeking is based on a fundamental assumption of incompleteness. Beyond all
seeking lies the discovery of Infinite Completeness… an undeniable
recognition that nothing is missing. ~Metta Zetty
Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within. Open your arms
if you want an embrace. ~Rumi
The Beloved is with you in the midst of your seeking!
He holds your hand wherever you wander.
~Rumi
To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search.
If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.
~Confucius
When we see that the seeker is the sought, there’s a giving up of all striving to
become… and what remains is a current of love, of presence. ~Jean Klein