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Narcissism of Spiritual “Seekers” It took me years to realize how much of narcissism hides in spiritualists who call themselves “seekers.” Have you noticed? Their seeking is never supposed to end. They insist you will never figure out life, never understand all there is to understand. You must keep seeking forever. Do you see the absurdity? How can you claim to be a seeker while believing you will never find what you’re seeking? That’s the contradiction at the heart of their position. The very act of seeking implies two things: 1) You know what you’re looking for, and 2) You believe it’s possible to find it. Whether you actually succeed is a separate question. But these spiritualists start, and stay, convinced that neither they nor anyone else will ever find it. How do I know? Because if you say you have figured it out, they immediately call you arrogant. It offends them. How dare you claim you found it? They have romanticized seeking itself so deeply that the idea of actually arriving feels unromantic to them. If the seeking ends, how will they continue to feel special and important? That is their narcissism. And the irony: when someone says they’ve figured it out, these same people label that person a narcissist or egoist. Then they play innocent: “See? I’m not arrogant. I’m the humble one because I keep seeking. You’re the narcissist for claiming you found it.” This is the classic move of the narcissistic spiritualist: 
“I am nothing. I know nothing.” Bruh, you’ve been seeking for decades and still saying you know nothing! That is fake modesty. Peak narcissism disguised as humility.