The Backwards Law

We think that not finding whatever it is we're looking for is the problem. But what if it's the searching itself that's the problem? Allan watts, i think, talked about this in one of his lectures once. We may be looking for something that can't be found. That's the dilemma that we're in. How do we actually get the thing that we really want? And our society seems to have placed this strange message in our psyche. I don't know exactly where we get this, but there's this sense that something is missing,. You lack something, and if you can ever obtain it, then life is going to be good. So meanwhile, you just keep trying