Because the flower is the most beautiful part of the plant, and is the part that contains what to us is the leading edge of its interaction with our own systems of value does not mean that that the entire plant is for the flower, or that the flower comprehends the plant. In the same way your consciousness may be the flower of your life, might even be the leading edge of your social value, but that doesn't mean that your life is for the sake of your consciousness or is comprehended by it. And here perhaps self or even ego could be substituted for consciousness - it is what seems, naturally enough from its own perspective to be the entire point of the exercise, but that is precisely how it serves the greater needs and purposes of life without being aware of it; all the better in fact for not being aware of it. And here again life should be taken in the largest possible sense. You may be sure that you inner self-certainty is at the core of your truth, but in fact the cogito is only the eclosion of a bud; everything you are has been given to you by transcendent processes, and this same giving has sown its seeds far and wide, for ends you cannot comprehend, ends you can only regard as absurd. So unless you realise and surrender your own purpose within that greater inscrutable purpose you are still a belle âme, a flower caught up in floral illusion.