Thomas Traherne Quote – “Never was anything in this world loved too much…”

Never was anything in this world loved too much, but many things have been loved in a false way, and all in too short a measure. Thomas Traherne (1637 – 1674)

Living Book, The Search, Thomas Traherne (1637 – 1674)

Thomas Traherne Quote – “The contemplation of Eternity maketh the Soul immortal.”

The contemplation of Eternity maketh the Soul immortal. Thomas Traherne (1637 – 1674)

Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862), Living Book, The Search

Henry David Thoreau Quote – “When you travel to the Celestial City…”

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letters of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God, none of the servants. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862), Living Book, The Search

Henry David Thoreau Quote – “Launch yourself on every wave…”

Now or Never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862), Living Book, The Search

Henry David Thoreau Quote – “Compensation in every disappointment…”

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862), Living Book, The Search, The Seeker

Henry David Thoreau Quote – “I never found a companion that was…”

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

Living Book, Tao Te Ching (circa 600 B.C.E.), The Search

Quote from the Tao Te Ching – “Practice not doing…”

Practice not doing and everything will fall into place. Tao Te Ching (circa 600 B.C.E.)

Living Book, Tao Te Ching (circa 600 B.C.E.), The Search

Quote from the Tao Te Ching – “The Way that can be named…”

The Way that can be named is not the Way. Tao Te Ching (circa 600 B.C.E.)

Anonymous, Living Book, The Search, The Seeker

Anonymous Quote – “Who would claim that they are living according to God…”

Who would claim that they are living according to God who throughout whole days or even months and years do not sigh out to God and do not aspire to God? A clear sign of death is not breathing. If this breathing is prayer, not to pray is a sign of death. The spiritual life, by which we are children […]

Living Book, The Search, Upanishads (circa 800 – 200 B.C.E.)

Quotation from the Upanishads – “For in our searchings are found all our desires…”

For in our searchings are found all our desires, and we gain victory over our worlds. Upanishads (circa 800 – 200 B.C.E.)

It would be a grave error to suppose that Buddhism and Christianity merely offer various explanations of suffering, or worse, justifications and mystifications built on this ineluctable fact. On the contrary both show that suffering remains inexplicable most of all for the man who attempts to explain it in order to evade it, or who thinks explanation itself is an escape. Suffering is not a “problem” as if it were something we could stand outside and control. Suffering as both Christianity and Buddhism see it, each in its own way, is part of our very ego-identity and empirical existence, and the only thing to do about it is to plunge right into the middle of contradiction and confusion in order to be transformed by what Zen calls the “Great Death” and Christianity calls “dying and rising with Christ.”

Thomas Merton (1915 – 1968)

The Search

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