"In sterquiliniis invenitur" - In filth, it will be found.

What you most want to find will be found where you least wish to look.
You have things that come easy to you and that you're happy about pursuing, you found those things and followed them, and you've mastered them. You know all that.
But then there's other places and things you don't want to go to or that you haven't faced yet, and you haven't mastered. They have this monstrous aspect to them.
There will be a lot of things in your life that you're afraid of that you don't want to face. But if you want to put yourself together, that's precisely what you have to do.
It is frequently the case that what you want to find is to be found where you least wish to look.

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