I have heard people say the more you lose yourself the more you find out who you really are. Since it is impossible to actually lose oneself, because whatever process one goes through to do so one is always one, I am guessing what they really mean is disconnect yourself from the life you have and find a centre that never changes, and there you will find yourself more accurately yourself than before. I agree it is more pithy to just say lose yourself!
The more I hear people say this the more I realise they are actually pointing to the fact that we are lost in the creation of societies that have grown organically over thousands of years. More accurately that part of us that is not a modern human is lost.
What is that part? Is it the barbarian, is it a nature lover walking naked in Eden, is it a language-less mystic seeing spirits in trees, or a short lived, strong being wanting to mate, have kids and live to have white hair?
I think it would be wrong to call that part primitive. What it probably is, is linked the thousands of years when we lived fearfully connected to an unforgiving nature but nonetheless exceptionally beautiful environment. When our senses heard many more things than human beings invented.
We cannot be lost in this world because we belong to her.