Soul searching is a vital part of everyone’s journey. Some people are very mindful of it, others don’t give much attention to this inner searching. However, if you are a conscious person, sooner or later, you start asking deep questions that are aimed at soul searching. In this article, we have collected soul searching quotes that are quite thought-provoking and may inspire you to do some inner searching work.
22 Soul Searching Quotes
#1
“The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It’s never outside.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
#2
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.” ~ Anne Sexton
#3
“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” ~ Alan Alda
#4
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
#5
“Give yourself the gift of time in coming to answers for your life…It takes time, and a lot of introspection and soul-searching, to get clear about what you really want to manifest in your life.” ~ David Emerald Womeldorff
#6
“We have not turned our attention to the needs of the soul. We have not considered what is required by the soul in order to be healthy. We have not studied the soul or sought to help it attain what is necessary to its evolution and its health. Because we have been five-sensory, we have focused upon the body and the personality. We have developed an extensive knowledge of the physical apparatus that the soul assumes when it incarnates. We know of amino acids, neurotransmitters, chromosomes, and enzymes, but we do not know of the soul.” ~ Gary Zukav
#7
“Each person is born with an unencumbered spot—free of expectation and regret, free of ambition and embarrassment, free of fear and worry—an umbilical spot of grace where we were each first touched by God. It is this spot of grace that issues peace. Psychologists call this spot the Psyche, theologians call it the Soul, Jung calls it the Seat of the Unconscious, Hindu masters call it Atman, Buddhists call it Dharma, Rilke calls it Inwardness, Sufis call it Qalb, and Jesus calls it the Center of our Love. To know this spot of Inwardness is to know who we are, not by surface markers of identity, not by where we work or what we wear or how we like to be addressed, but by feeling our place in relation to the Infinite and by inhabiting it.” ~ Mark Nepo
#8
“You were born with everything you need to answer the call of your soul.” ~ Marie Forleo
#9
“And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean ‘inner selves’, the thing that created the life in the first place. Now consciously, most of us are not aware of this. But if you’re searching for happiness; if you’re searching for tranquility; if you’re searching just to have a nice, peaceful, loving, understanding life… in actual fact, your searching for your inner self.” ~ Sydney Banks
#10
“Health depends on being in harmony with our souls.” ~ Edward Bach
#11
“Love can heal a wounded soul. We all have scars from our past. Scars on wrists and throats can be healed with time but there are some scars which are much deeper than those on the body. They are the scars on our hearts, minds and on our souls which take a long time to heal. Embrace people who love you because love has an amazing power to heal and bring radiance in our life…” ~ Aarti Khurana
#12
“Your soul knows when it is time to close a chapter…” ~ Unknown
#13
“It’s easy to soul search in the modern secularized sense of the term. All we need to do is introspect a little and ask ourselves some pointed questions. Traveling is often touted as a great way to soul search for young, bright-eyed seekers. But soul searching, in the spiritual sense of the term, is much harder. It’s more elusive, more slippery, more complex. Nevertheless, to my knowledge, it is the most worthy and important pursuit in existence.” ~ Aletheia Luna
#14
“Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.” ~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
#15
“What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.” ~ Paulo Coelho
#16
“Are you searching for the river of your soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the ocean.” ~ Rumi
#17
“To put it simply, soul searching is the quest to answer life’s problems and questions. When most people refer to ‘soul searching,’ they are talking about uncovering truth and happiness by questioning our thoughts, habits, and motivations. But soul searching also has a deeper meaning. At its core, soul searching is a return to the center of your being. Quite literally, it is a journey to find your Soul or True Nature; it is a spiritual path. And usually, it marks the beginning of the spiritual awakening journey.” ~ Aletheia Luna
#18
“Mindfully practicing authenticity during our most soul-searching struggles is how we invite grace, joy, and gratitude into our lives.” ~ Brené Brown
#19
“Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch – an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.” ~ Lakshmi Pratury
#20
“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” ~ Caroline Myss
#21
“All births mean separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.” ~ Herman Hesse
#22
“I am the drop that contains the sea. How beautiful to be an ocean hidden within an infinite drop.” ~ Yunus Emre
We hope you are inspired by these soul searching quotes as much as we are!