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When this craving for a guru becomes excessive, inordinate, it is a sign of weakness, an attempt to escape one's own personal responsibility and to place it squarely on somebody else's shoulders, a manifestation of inferiority complex such as we are accustomed to see in races that have been long enslaved by others.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 3 : Independent Path > # 298