The Happy Seeker’s Quote Garden

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Be still, and know that I am God. – Psalm 46:10

The Truth is true, and all is well. Unconquerable life prevails. - Martin Cecil

He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain. – Rabindranath Tagore / Gitanjali, Song Offerings to the Creator.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. – Kahlil Gibran / The Prophet

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune.
But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. - Kahlil Gibran / The Prophet

What we give really exists,
For this is the veritableness of the world,
what people achieved, it happened right there;
and great things occurred;
yet great things only happened
because thousands awakened every day
and created and designed and suffered and loved and thought
and because none of this was ever lost.
- Rainer Maria Rilke / Quote translated and submitted by Isabelle Fuchs, a German friend. Said Isabelle:”It was as if Rilke’s spirit dictated the words, as if he was standing beside me, helping me comprehend what he wanted to say.

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event — through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you — ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are. - Eckhart Tolle / One With All Life

Every step on the path to Heaven is Heaven. – St. Catherine of Siena

Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you. – Eckhart Tolle / One With All Life

When there is an openness to fear, where can it be found? What a strange creature fear is. It exists only when there is resistance to its existence. When you stop and open to what you have resisted throughout time, you find that fear is not fear. Fear is energy. Fear is space. Fear is the Buddha. It is Christ’s heart knocking at your door. - Gangaji / The Diamond in your Pocket

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. – Chang Tzu

This above all, To thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare

For everyone that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. - Matthew 7:8

The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero and transferred his spiritual center of gravity from within the pale of his (her) society to a zone unknown. This fateful region of both treasure and danger may be variously represented: as a distant land, a forest, a kingdom underground, beneath the waves or above the sky, a secret island, lofty mountaintop, or profound dream state; but it is always a place of strangely fluid and polymorphous beings, unimaginable deeds, and impossible delights. - Joseph Campbell / The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Until at last the strength I longed for came to me, and steered me through the Java Sea. - Dwight Long / Sailing All Seas in the Idle Hour

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