It’s ego — the false self — that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true.

Jed McKenna
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  1. Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.

  2. I don’t see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other from sleeping and dreaming.

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