The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.
The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life.
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.
There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.