Anandmath

"But we do not ask. We want to be told.
One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years.
We want to have our thinking confirmed and corroborated by another, whereas to ask a question is to ask it of yourself.
What I say has very little value. You will forget it the moment you shut this book, or you will remember and repeat certain phrases, or you will compare what you have read here with some other book—but you will not face your own life.
And that is all that matters—your life, yourself, your pettiness, your shallowness, your brutality, your violence, your greed, your ambition, your daily agony and endless sorrow—that is what you have to understand and nobody on earth or in heaven is going to save you from it but yourself."

~ J. Krishnamurti