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"When someone seeks, then it happens all too easily that his eyes will see the only thing he is seeking, that he cannot find anything, cannot let anything in, because he is always thinking only of that thing he seeks, because he has a goal, because he is possessed by the goal. Seeing means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. You, Venerable One, may indeed be a seeker, striving toward your goal, there is much you do not see which is right before your eyes." -Siddhartha's words to Govinda, in Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.