Our minds have certain qualities which aid us in this quest. In all the traditions there are stories of the innocent who sets out in quest of wisdom, gold or a sacred object. In the end he returns to where he came from only to understand it was before his very eyes all the time. Why are we blind ? It is a pardox that we first have to comprehend what we have lost before we can begin to appreciate what we have. To become what we are not before we can realize who we are.