Part I: Finding yourself is not the same as feeling good about yourself, although the one who discovers and recovers his Real Life knows the rightness of everything that happens to him for the rest of his entire eternal existence.
Part II: Anytime you touch the Truth of yourself through the work of realizing a deliberate intention to do the same, three events take place at once: the Truth you touch transforms you -- so that your intention to touch and be touched again is strengthened -- and you understand why conscious effort is the only effort that counts.