SEEKING God is a life long process which carries with it a great promise:
"Those who SEEK the Lord lack no blessing" (Ps 33:11)

TO SEEK means TO LISTEN
"Listen carefully, my son." These first words of the Prologue to the Rule are the first words of the great Commandment: "Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the one, only Lord" (Mk 12,29).
LISTENING requires SILENCE as well as HUMILITY