"All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others."
Seeking Pleasure
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Seeking
Cravings
"All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being."
Don’t Seek Happiness
"Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness."
Rule Over the All
"Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All."
Ready to Struggle
"Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves and very persistently in order to attain it."
Superior Man
"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."
Always Longing for Something
"People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking."
Remaining Unconscious
"So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the present conflict to enter a condition in which there shall be no conflict; or whether you are unaware, unconscious of this conflict in...
Total Development
"For the total development of the human being, solitude as a means of cultivating sensitivity becomes a necessity. One has to know what it means to be alone, what it is to meditate, what it is to die; and the implications of solitude, of meditation, of death, can be...
The Door Will Be Opened
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."