When you take an idea or a question to be answered, let it dwell in your mind and slowly ignite a fire in you to such an extent that it burns you and makes you thirsty for more. All you need is answers to quench the thirst and desire that you had set your mind on, and none of the other worldly things seem to satisfy you (represented by flowers). But when you reach those answers and your thirst is quenched, you realize how beautiful the process of reaching towards them was and how you have grown as a person in multi-faceted layers ( depicted as layer on the figure). This is how the quest for your answers leads to the discovery of the self.