We commonly refer to our spiritual journey as a seeking or a searching. To do this is to be one step behind. Roots and Wings encourages using the word 'hunt.' What we are seeking is right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Seeking and searching will go in circles around what is hidden in plain sight, because they use the predictable mind. Seeking is linear and rigid. Hunting is non-linear and flexible. Hunting is a requirement of survival. The quarry is hidden, but it is there. Hunting uses all the senses, including intuition, and experience. Hunting requires us to be unpredictable; to break our habits, to be instinctive (alert) and aware (conscious or knowing.) The good hunter prays before the hunt, talks to the quarry, is grateful when succeeding. And then the next day or week is out hunting again. The spiritual path never ends and is a life long path. Seeking and searching imply a beginning and an end. The hunt opens and closes. Nothing to seek, everything is here. The secret is, gentleness and flexibility bring the results that force and rigidity fail to achieve.