Let us consider what guidance or help means to each one of us. Does it not mean the resolving of individual difficulties, pains and sorrows? If you are a spiritual teacher or a doctor, I come to you to be shown a happy way of life or to be cured of a disease. We seek a way of life from someone enlightened, and knowledge or information from the learned. We want to achieve, we want to be successful, we want to be happy, so we look for a pattern of life which will help us to attain what we desire, sacred or profane. After trying many other things, we think of truth as the supreme goal, the ultimate peace and happiness, and we want to attain it. So we are on the lookout to find what we desire. But can desire ever make its way to reality? Does not the desire for something, however noble, breed illusion? And as desire acts, does it not set up the structure of authority, imitation and fear? This is the actual psychological process – and is this help, or self-deception?

From Commentaries on Living Series 2

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