Be the patience you seek
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Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
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Be the patience you seek
If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.
Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can__ manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only __ind_ these things, we will never sense any compulsion to __ind_ God.
Never stop seeking, even when it seems there is no hope
A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your companions and the whole world creeps up quiet and you slowly realize you're going to stumble upon a secret place where everyone will jump out at you. And then, when you are the very last seeker, you start to wonder if you're the only person in the world. If the hiding place somehow sucked up the players and the last one has to decide to run away or get sucked up, too.
Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left.
There is a sacred time, when the soul desire to know the spirit.
I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.
A person whom works exclusively for money places a price tag on his or her soul. A person whom labors to attain fame seeks a false form of adulation. The writer ignores the lure of a glamorous life by seeking to penetrate the darkness of their own being and meditate the larger issues that frame existence. A seeker knowingly follows a path that is barren, bleak, desolate, and unproductive in terms of attaining recognition and exulted social and financial status.
If you don't know the question, you are not ready for the answer.
Be a believer in true love. Seek deep communication with others and with yourself.
If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.
What we seek when we wander usually leads us back home.
It is not the truth which has to be sought, it is you who have to be brought home.
Humility is patient because it is neither past nor forward seeking _ it is content.
Forgive the beggar attention is all that__ seekedand in return I never givethis will hitthis will turn around and it will bite backI know I believe that this is just another stepanother mistake that will teachso, forgive that asker of questionsand engross yourself in her mistakesand runfast never come backunderstand there__ nothing morenothingnot once morenot everforgivewalk away and live on.
The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each of them sees. Marcel Proust, translated by Kiyotesong
It is only through seeking that we find what we are looking for.