Spiritual Quest Quotes

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

The journey is the reward

In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

O Beloved, where is the Beloved?

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

How far have I to go to find you in whom I have already arrived.

I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details.

When following God, Zero we never find.

Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.

I pursue God on a daily basis, I'm not stepping into oblivion.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another way of saying that all our seeking will fall short unless God starts and finishes the search. The decisive part of our seeking is not our human ascent to God, but His descent to us. Without God's descent there is no human ascent. The secret of the quest lies not in our brilliance but in His grace.

The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.

The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.

I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

I want to save my soul, that timid wind.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.