The Seeker Quotes

#1. I had been searching for truth, but it is strange to say that as long as the searcher was there, truth was not found. And when the truth was found, I looked all around ... I was absent. When the truth was found, the seeker was no more; and when the seeker was, truth was nowhere.

Osho

#2. What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

Rumi

#4. The seeker is that which is being sought.

Gautama Buddha

#5. The purpose of all these illustrations is to direct the seeker's mind towards the one Reality underlying them all.

Ramana Maharshi

#6. Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.

R.C. Sproul

#7. The seeker is the sought.

Osho

#8. Make up your mind that you will become the seeker of your own higher self.

Ma Jaya

#9. The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.

Ramana Maharshi

#10. The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!

Meher Baba

#11. Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

Walter Isaacson

#12. Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The very seeking becomes a barrier to truth, to the ultimate experience.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#13. The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Wally Lamb

#14. It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Max Planck

#15. 'Legend of the Seeker' - it has new and interesting creatures and magic, but it's the stories.

Craig Horner

#16. The Seeker needed a nice long lifetime eating sunshine.

Stephenie Meyer

#17. The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

Pat Conroy

#19. I am the seeker of love, I am the giver of love, and I became the love.

Debasish Mridha

#20. To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.

Constant Lambert

#21. The seeker of truth is a mirror for their neighbors.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#22. Two kinds of greedy people never get satisfied; the seeker of knowledge and the seeker of this world

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#23. The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#24. It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.

Alan Watts

#25. The seeker has no beliefs, he is open and trusts his feelings. His religion is life, his God is life, he makes no divisions of nations as he sees the world is one and we are all human beings. Life itself reveals how to live and he trusts life.

Chobo

#26. The seeker disappears when he realizes There is nothing to seek. In this awareness of nothingness, The Absolute tells him: What you seek, you already are.

Gian Kumar

#27. From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean.

Rumi

#28. The seeker-friendly approach to religion can be to make needs meet

Sunday Adelaja

#29. If I were to continue on with 'The Host,' which is a possibility, there are characters and stories that could continue ... If I went ahead with that, it would be two more ... Next would be 'The Soul,' and then 'The Seeker.'

Stephenie Meyer

#30. In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. Practice meditation. Become a seeker. Walk the path of the seeker. You will get the best of everything the world has to offer.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#32. The peace of mind which permeates the saint's atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint.

Ramana Maharshi

#33. The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.

Swami Vivekananda

#34. Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#35. If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

Sidney Lanier

#36. The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred by Guy Finley is a very wise book, filled with inspiration to help you dramatically improve your life. I highly recommend it.

Daniel Amen

#37. 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.

Baha'u'llah

#38. The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, "I know." That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.

Anthony De Mello

#39. How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#40. No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year
ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge
and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#41. The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#42. The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.

Paul Watzlawick

#43. The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.

Ramana Maharshi

#44. I am the seeker, the act of seeking, and the one who is sought.

Karan Bajaj

#45. The seeker for perfection must discover in his own life the reflection of the inner light.

Okakura Kakuzo

#46. To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

H.L. Mencken

#47. The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#48. A true Seeker, one who can make a difference, must show himself to be a Seeker. The wizard doesn't point to someone and say, 'Here is the Sword of Truth, you will be the Seeker.' He doesn't really have a choice in the matter.

Terry Goodkind

#49. The Seeker's host body was named Lacey; a dainty, soft, feminine name. Lacey. As inappropriate as the size, in my opinion. Like naming a pit bull Fluffy.

Stephenie Meyer

#50. In God there is no duality. In that Presence "I" and "we" and "you" do not exist. "I" and "you" and "we" and "He" become one ... Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one.

Mahmud Shabistari

#51. Just as a man carrying on his head a load of wood that has caught fire would go rushing to a pond to quench the flames, even so will the seeker of truth, scorched by the fires of life - birth, death, self-deluding futility - go rushing to a teacher wise to the ways of the things that matter most.

Huston Smith

#52. Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

Zoroaster

#53. Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections. When the seeker loves himself, loves the Divine within himself, he eventually realises the Ultimate Truth.

Sri Chinmoy

#54. The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#55. I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.

Mahatma Gandhi

#56. When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.

Alexander Ludwig

#57. The seat of Realization 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.

Ramana Maharshi

#58. For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.

Bayazid Bastami

#59. How can one know who his spiritual teacher is? ... His heart looks at the spiritual Masters and makes the choice. When the heart sees a spiritual Master, if it is overwhelmed with joy, then there is every probability that that spiritual Master is the right one for the seeker.

Sri Chinmoy

#60. 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

#61. The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

Paul Watzlawick

#62. Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.

Sri Chinmoy

#63. To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

Saib Tabrizi

#64. Such grave uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is also the obscure country where it must seek and where all its baggage will be nothing to it.

Marcel Proust

#65. As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Annie Dillard

#66. There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

Sri Chinmoy

#67. She had become the demon, only too much, and too fast. I had an incredible urge to knock her on her ass, take her down a few notches. Turning her just got higher on the priority scale. That's if I didn't kill her first.

L.J. Kentowski

#68. How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

Anatoli Boukreev

#69. In the course of our Journey we need to realize that we do not need to become anything, because we are already in possession of the characteristics that we have been looking for so far, pursuing an image projected into the future.

Frank M. Wanderer

#70. One day you will be able to look over all the disaster and heartbreak and feel ok with it, today mighten be the day but one day you will.

Nikki Rowe

#71. People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

Muhammad Yunus

#72. If you come at the Bible as if it's a document of encyclopedic information, you've pretty much killed any kind of life change in a seeker and unbeliever.

Erwin McManus

#73. To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.

Martin E. Marty

#74. You wake up oneday and it's different, not so much in a physical way but in the way you look at things. I think when you reach that primary moment in your life, you finally have the courage to let go of the human attachments and start to live in a way that compliments your heart and soul.

Nikki Rowe

#75. The Wanderer then leaves behind the spiritual seeker, with all the accumulated knowledge and lofty spiritual experience, and takes the first step on the Journey.

Frank M. Wanderer

#76. Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let him resolutely pursue a solitary course; there is no fellowship with the fool.

Gautama Buddha

#77. I am in no way an adrenaline-seeker. I'm much more of an irritable bowel syndrome kind of gal, really. And rest assured, my bowels were highly irritated by all the stress.

Camille Perri

#78. Tightly held by rocks
Through winter, the ice today
Begins to come undone:
A way-seeker also is the water,
Melting, murmuring from the moss.

Saigyo

#79. Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.

Gautama Buddha

#80. I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeker. You can be disenchanted because you're not getting what you want, and you're always striving and looking ahead instead of just being in the moment.

Matt Dillon

#81. God reveals himself unfailingly to the thoughtful seeker.

Honore De Balzac

#82. I have always been the first on the dance floor. Before fame, people thought it made me a good laugh; now, people point and call me an attention seeker! I'm very aware of the way people can view me, but I'm very aware that I have to just enjoy my life.

Jessie J.

#83. Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of.

Nikki Rowe

#84. You have all the hallmarks of a seeker ... You chase special knowledge. You find threads of connections and then share them with people who need them. I can read it in the way you looked at me, the questions you ask, but more importantly, the ones you don't.

M.J. Rose

#85. Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#86. I'm a truth seeker. That's what I do every day on the show - put out the truth. Some people don't like it, they call it sensational, but I say life is sensational.

Oprah Winfrey

#87. Do not fear the dark, even when life is dim.
A true seeker will always find light from within

C Enyo

#88. By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#89. Those who jump out of airplanes do not love life - they deny it, which, of course, is not done without a certain naughty exhilaration. Like children they relish tugging on the apron of Mother Nature, as long as she doesn't turn and slap them.

Anthony Marais

#90. I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.

Patrick Carman

#91. Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of her improbable life with candor, wit, and an unsparing eye for the perfect detail. Brilliant.

Janice Erlbaum

#92. If your heart isn't yet illumined
Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart,
Be at war continually with your carnal soul.
But if your heart is already awakened,
Sleep peacefully, sleep in the arms of Love

Rumi

#93. Showing oneself eager for office was a sign of being unworthy of it, for the office-seeker probably had selfish views rather than the public good in mind.

Gordon S. Wood

#94. The Queen Seeker was back!

Maria V. Snyder

#95. The effort of the genuine spiritual seeker should be to cultivate love until the mind becomes saturated by it.

Bhante Y. Wimala

#96. True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God.

Sri Chinmoy

#97. I'm Raine Benares, seeker and ... " I looked up at Vegard.
"What else are people calling me now?"
The big Guardian chuckled and shook his head. "A lot of things, ma'am. Some you've heard, most you haven't, but I'm sure you could guess.

Lisa Shearin

#98. Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Philippe Petit

#99. Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.

Sri Chinmoy

#100. She was tasked with guarding the doorway to the Otherworld, keeping the balance of nature (as much as anyone could in these modern times), and occasionally, helping a worthy seeker.

Deborah Blake