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Imitating the example set by a spiritual leader, emulating his actions and ways and speech, may contribute helpfully toward the improvement of the self but cannot eradicate it. However improved it may become, it still remains the old self. The man is still unliberated from its thraldom and still caged inside thought patterns provided by someone else.

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 4 : Detaching from The Ego (Part I) > # 53