In biological organisms, the largest and smallest organisms tend to have no patterns or stripes. We see this, for example, in elephants and mice. This physical reality is reflected in states of consciousness as well, in the way that infants and senior citizens have no preconceptions or "learned beliefs" that bias their interpretation of reality. Hence, to become wise one must become like a child, because only with the innocence of a child can one interpret reality without the lens of fear or judgement. 

The problem, however, is that as a child, mot people are taught to hate themselves; for either, on the one hand, failing to measure up to a moral ideal of human perfection in an image called "Jesus Christ" - which happens to be an image of moral perfection that, because Jesus is considered to be "God," is completely impossible for any human being to ever achieve, even if they had eternity to try and do so (which only sounds like pure hell, by the way), and for which they are held responsible for murdering with their "sins" of failing to be as morally-perfect as Jesus - or on the other hand, for failing to measure up to and look like the photo-shopped images of the perfect "consumer" which bombard our senses every second of every day, from an ocean of screens, which baptize our mind from birth with their gospel of consumption and in which we are bathed for our entire life. 

Later, the emptiness that such unrealistic yardsticks are "intelligently designed" to cultivate in us, are used to bore a giant cavity into the center of a person's own sense of self worth and identity; a cavity which is then filled with both the spiritual ideal that we can only love ourselves by first loving the God who made us all so imperfect in the first place,  as well as the consumer-ideal that we can only be fulfilled by forever chasing after the images in our commercials which are used to condition us all to behave like obedient little Eichmanns, by the flickering shadows being cast on the walls of our digital cave.