What Kind of Seeker are You?
In Greenleaf's essay title 'The Search and The Seeker,' found in the book Seeker and Servant, he writes about the importance of not limiting our vision to the one we now have. How do we do this? By seeking and searching for its own sake rather than seeking only to find. He says:
This suggests two kinds of seekers: those who seek to find and those who seek to seek. The first see the search as a path toward something they want. When they find it, they hope to settle down and enjoy it. The search will be over. The others are interested in the search. They don't want anything but opening vistas for the search. The search gives them joy. They do not expect to over settle down. Instead, they hope to grow.
A Reflection: Are we limiting our potentiality by setting goals and striving to achieve them? Does this narrow who we might become? Is there a better way - a way in which we leave our path open to spontaneity and limitless possibilities - a way in which we consume ourselves only with the search?
This suggests two kinds of seekers: those who seek to find and those who seek to seek. The first see the search as a path toward something they want. When they find it, they hope to settle down and enjoy it. The search will be over. The others are interested in the search. They don't want anything but opening vistas for the search. The search gives them joy. They do not expect to over settle down. Instead, they hope to grow.
A Reflection: Are we limiting our potentiality by setting goals and striving to achieve them? Does this narrow who we might become? Is there a better way - a way in which we leave our path open to spontaneity and limitless possibilities - a way in which we consume ourselves only with the search?




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