Quotes about Discovery
It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
- George Bernard Shaw
No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God.
- Thomas Merton
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.
- Vincent Van Gogh
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
- Teresa of Avila
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.
- Joseph Campbell
Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
- Alain de Botton