Dig a well

If you search for Truth,
Drill a well.
Don’t punch a thousand shallow holes.
Don’t ski across the lake,
Or try to know the ocean
By charting it’s surface.
The mystery lies at the bottom.
And so you must dive down deep.
Seek only for that one truth
That answers the question
Of your very own soul.
It matters not 
That you know nothing 
But the very thing you seek.
For truth spreads out 
To touch all truth.
And to know a thing
To know it deep
Is to know a great many things
That you didn’t know you knew
Until you needed them.