There seems to be two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish . . .

and those who understand
that all such attempts are just gesticulation and playacting, that there is only one thing that can be done,

which is to dis-identify themselves with the ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure Being.

Wei Wu Wei, [Terence James Stannus Gray] 1895 -1986, writer on Taoism