Of the many earnest, and how earnest, people we may observe reading, attending
lectures, studying and practising disciplines, devoting their energies to the
attainment of a liberation which is by definition unattainable, how many are
not striving via the ego-concept which is itself the only barrier between what
they think they are and that which they wish to become but always have been and
always will be? - Why Lazurus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei