"Seeking means: to have a goal, but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal."

-- Hermann Hesse

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life that you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

-- Rene Descartes

"If you know that fundamentally there is nothing to seek, you have settled your affairs."

-- Rinzai

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

-- Emerson

"Seeking relief is suffering, not a way to eliminate it."

-- Lee Lozowick

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the ancients, seek what they sought."

-- Basho

"That thou mayest have pleasure in everything, seek pleasure in nothing."

-- St. John of the Cross

"Do not seek reality, just stop views."

-- Third Zen Patriarch