We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.
Interpretation
Our perceptions shape our reality; what we seek influences what we discover.
This quote from Madeleine L'Engle highlights the concept that our focus and intentions significantly affect our experiences and interpretations of the world around us. If we approach life with a positive mindset, seeking love, openness, and personal growth, we are more likely to encounter and foster these qualities. Conversely, if we concentrate on negativity, fear, or malevolence, we risk being consumed by those darker aspects, illustrating the power of perspective and intention in shaping our lives.
In practice
During a motivational speech about positivity and personal growth, this quote can inspire the audience.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.
We have a choice. We can seek for the bad in others. Or we can make peace and work to extend to others the understanding, fairness, and forgiveness we so desperately desire for ourselves. It is our choice; for whatever we seek, that we will certainly find.
A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul.
Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that? The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold of one of them, you wouldn't have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollars
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