“When someone is search­ing,” said Siddhartha, “then it might eas­ily hap­pen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is un­able to find any­thing, to let any­thing enter his mind, be­cause he al­ways thinks of noth­ing but the ob­ject of his search, be­cause he has a goal, be­cause he is ob­sessed by the goal. Search­ing means: hav­ing a goal. But find­ing means: be­ing free, be­ing open, hav­ing no goal. You, O ven­er­able one, are per­haps in­deed a searcher, be­cause, striv­ing for your goal, there are many things you don’t see, which are dir­ectly in front of your eyes.”