Does self-seeking stymie self-awareness?
somtimes we must run around ourselves in order to find ourselves. whatever it takes to come to self-awareness. first you have to “seek” in order to realize that you already are/have what you have been looking for. “the looking itself is a trace of what we are looking for” -rumi and “if i had known the real way it was, i would have stopped all the looking around. but that knowing depends on the time spent looking!