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title: "4 End Seeking Quotes by 4 authors"
description: "Browse 4 End Seeking quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best End Seeking sayings and thoughts."
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> [You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-w/you-are-asking-yourself-as-all-of-us-must-who-am-i-where-am-i-whence/)

[Bill W](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-w/)

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> [Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/now-don-t-think-that-awakening-is-the-end-awakening-is-the-end-of/)

[Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/)

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> [Since God is the end of man, since he has created us to be perfect and happy in him, it is manifest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-henri-lacordaire/since-god-is-the-end-of-man-since-he-has-created-us-to-be-perfect-and/)

[Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baptiste-henri-lacordaire/)

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> [“If at some point in your life you adopt an idea or a perception as the absolute truth, you close the door…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/th-ch-nh-t-h-nh/if-at-some-point-in-your-life-you-adopt-an-idea-or-a-perception-as/)

[Thich Nhat Hanh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/th-ch-nh-t-h-nh/)

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