successfully seeking..

"Men do not know themselves, and therefore they do not understand the things of their inner world.

Each man has the essence of God, and all the wisdom and power of the world (germinally) in himself;

he possesses one kind of knowledge as much as another,

and he who does not find that which is in him cannot truly say that he does not possess it,

but only that he was not capable of successfully seeking for it."



Paracelsus
in Whitall N. Perry
_A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom_
Varanasi: Indica, 1998, (1971), p. 867