Seeing Our Essence

Most aspects of definition are less significant day-to-day than they seem when standing alone in the abstract, and so how we define ourselves is more of an evolving awareness to which we periodically refer and over time it becomes more complete, though not more complex.  In this sense the progress is less in adding on than it is in taking away -- deleting aspects that are seen to be less essential than they might have.  More is involved in our noticing than in our finding.  It is coming to what we had not set out to find.