At times

"At times I feel like a living experiment, an alchemist's vessel in which a marvelous, although sometimes painful, mystery is unfolding."

~ Richard Moss

Who

Who in the world am I?
Ah, that's the great puzzle.

~Lewis Carroll

Trying

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

~Alan Watts

Why should I seek?

Why should I seek?
I am the same as He.
His essence speaks through me.
I have been looking for myself!

~Rumi.

Wherever I go

Wherever I go,
I meet myself.

~Tozan

This looks strangely familiar

Sam: This looks strangely familiar.
Frodo: Because we've been here before. We're going in circles!

~Frodo and Sam, The Lord of the Rings

I am searching

I am searching for that which every man seeks - peace and rest.

- Dante Alighieri

The tragedy is

"The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and self-respect everywhere except within themselves, and so they fail in their search."

Dr Nathaniel Branden

You're alive

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

~Barbara Hall,

Things don't change

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all.

~Carols Casteneda

Those who seek

Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]

~Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas

To find

To find yourself, think for yourself.

~Socrates

If we were to look

If we were to look more closely, we might find that some of our most powerful lessons in life are those that, at least in the beginning, we considered mundane and somehow unworthy of our attention.

~Maria Nemeth

Every path

Every path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We’re looking for something, though we’re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

~Real Live Preacher, February 13, 2003

Don't go searching

Don't go searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.

~Seng Ts'an

All of us are watchers

All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.

~Peter M. Leschak