Knowing God and knowing yourself are the same quest because humans are made in God's image. Stop either pursuit too early and you get cults, religions, or shallow self-help. Most people quit after a small win or when the pain gets real, but both paths lead to the same transformation.
This pursuit of the knowledge of God and the knowledge of self are the actual same pursuit because you're created in his image. The only problem is on either of those fronts, if you stop too soon, you end up in a cult. Just look at every cult you want on Earth. Every major other religion is just the pursuit of God that stopped too early. Now every major self-help, self-care movement, all of that, same thing. They just—
that's why we have influencers instead of impactors. That's right.
And so we've got people who are going after the knowledge of self The pursuit of bettering yourself isn't the problem. It's you either stop when you, A, saw something that you defined as success and it eased the pain enough for you to stop, or you experienced so much pain because you had to look at your story that you didn't want to look anymore and you stopped. But the truth is, those two roads will eventually meet and you'll experience transformation.