If inquiry is to remain honest, it must eventually include the questioner, not to elevate it, but to see that it is not outside the question.

Beneath the search for truth lives a quieter motive: the desire to end discomfort.

These motives bend inquiry toward relief rather than reality.

If the self is built to preserve continuity, it will always prefer closure and call it reason.

Perhaps depth is not achieved by refining belief, but by loosening grip.

The condition remains simple: the questioner must be included, or inquiry becomes another escape.