This fundamental belief is the wellspring of all ideas that reinforce it, and it is the fountain of all miseries that plague humanity. The loneliness, the sense of isolation, the fear of life and death, the suspicion of all promising ideas, the allegiance to one's beliefs, the clinging to one's few possessions, the identification with the body to the exclusion of the mind-all are a result of this point of view of separation. It is a complete belief system. By complete, we mean that it regenerates itself. It gives birth to itself every moment.
Devotion is seen as a sign of weakness in a society that worships heroes and heroines.
There are no heroes or heroines in The Way of Knowledge. There are beginning students. There are advanced students. And there are people who cannot be students at all. There are people who struggle against Knowledge.