Seeking is as good as beholding, for the time that he will suffer the soul to be in travail.  It is God's will that we seek him, to be beholding of him, for by that he shall show us himself of his special grace when he will.  And how a soul shall have him in its beholding, he shall teach himself, and that is most worship to him and profit to thyself.

Juliana of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love.