Well, actually, I was more thinking of Emerson's dictum: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Then there's the stranger at the crossroads story... Ursula with only 38 exams left to mark in sunny North Bay Donal McEvoy wrote:
--- On *Sun, 25/4/10, Mike Geary /<jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>/* wrote: >Ursula's observation that you can only find what is already in you, smacks of >Gnosticism to me -- Gnosticism as I interpret itand agree with. This"observation" can be viewed as trite or false, depending howit is interpreted.