‎"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the West is that he represents an alien principle of the spirit, namely, that you don't follow your own path; you follow a given path. And that's totaly contrary to the Western Spirit! Our spirituality is of the individual quest, individual realization- authenticity in your life out of your own center. So you must take the message of the East, assimilate it to your own dimension and to your own thrust of life, and not get pulled off track.