In a search for God and a search for self, we always end up coming home. Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, when asked by Glenda what she learned on her journey, replied, "I learned that if I ever lose my heart's desire again, I won't go looking past my own back-yard because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with." Dorothy's search for the wizard ended in the discovery that he was only a man behind a curtain, with all the needs and frailties that she, herself, had.
We can make our journeys endless by seeking God or self outside of ourselves in people, places and things, or we can shorten it by turning inward and looking for them where we are most likely to find them. Exactly how we get there is of little importance. Ultimately the path will fade away behind us, anyway. It is the being there that matters; our willingness to know that our search begins and ends in the same place, within us.
We are the man behind and in front of the curtain.
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