Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.
There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack. . . you will make marvelous demonstrations.
I'd really like to have a family at some point. Not that I'm not focused on my career - of course I am. And if a great project comes my way, then of course I'll take it. But I'm not actively out seeking something specific.
Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.
Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
Many jazz artists go to L. A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.
You are that which you are seeking.
Why would we want fame, when God promises us glory? Why would we be seeking the wealth of the world when the wealth of heaven is ours? Why would we run for a crown that will perish with time, when we're called to win a crown that is imperishable?
We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other, knowing all the while that both are mostly beyond our control. It is a both scary and exciting predicament. In the end, it all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure; it is never quite what you expect.
In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.
He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.
Whatever you're seeking-it's seeking You
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.
He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
When I write I'll sometimes say things which are somewhat controversial - not because I'm seeking out controversy for its own sake, but if I don't have anything to say which is different, why am I bothering to write stuff down in the first place?
I was doing great plays. It wasn't changing the world. I was getting good agents and doing film and TV and I wasn't happier. I was like "Wow, there is an unease inside of me. " And that led me back on my kind of more spiritual path to the Baha'i faith in a new and fresher way and I came to also understand at that point that there was no difference between being devout and being an artist. There is no difference between creativity and spirituality and philosophy and that is what Soul Pancake, the book, and SoulPancake. com are about is: it's all about human expression and it's about seeking to transcend.
The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.