spiritual quest
Search for meaning
A spiritual quest is a personal journey toward deeper meaning, enlightenment, or connection with something transcendent.
The quest may involve religious practice, meditation, pilgrimage, or simply searching for purpose: After his divorce, he embarked on a spiritual quest that took him to monasteries across Asia.
The phrase often implies sustained seeking rather than quick answers.
- meditationFocused attention practice
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- pilgrimageReligious journey to shrine
- dharmaCosmic moral order
- ashramHindu spiritual retreat
prayer · salvation · holy grail · enlightenment · soul-searching · finding yourself · devotion · initiation · nirvana · divine union · higher power · faith journey · sacred journey · awe · fasting · mysticism · contemplation · inner peace
- finding oneselfsoul searching, introspection, meditation, self-awareness, reflection
- DanteDivine Comedy, Inferno, Dante, Paradiso, Beatrice
- Mystic PoetryRumi, Hafiz, divine union, mystical union, sacred verse
- questsseeking, searching, epic journey, pursuing, journeying
- midlifemidlife crisis, empty nest, empty nester, forties, fifties
- RomanticismWilliam Blake, the sublime, J.M.W. Turner, Eugene Delacroix, emotionalism
spiritual questmaterialism
Prioritizing goods over spirit
careerism · rat race · consumerism · greed · keeping up with the Joneses
spiritual questcomplacency
Uncritical satisfaction with oneself
unexamined life · going through the motions · mindlessness · stagnation · incuriosity