Seeking

 Siddhartha

-Herman Hesse

"When someone is seeking," said Siddhartha

"It happens quiet easily that

he only sees the thing that

he is seeking;

that he is unable to find anything

because he is only thinking of the thing

he is seeking,

because he has a goal,

because he is obsessed with his goal,

seeking means to have a goal;

bur finding means: to be free,

to be receptive,

to have no goals!

You , O worthy one, 

are perhaps indeed a seeker,

for in striving towards your goal,

you do not see many things

that are under your nose! "