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When disciples follow a teacher, what is it that they really follow? Suppose the master advocated cruelty and preached selfishness--would the disciples still continue to follow him? Obviously, they would not. This is because their own inward feeling would reject the teaching. It shows that they are really following the teacher within themselves, the voice of their own Higher Self. It is this Higher Self within them which makes them seek out and respond to a true teacher, for he is really an outward embodiment of this Self.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 6 : Student-Teacher > # 823