Death is extraordinarily like life when we know how to live.
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is. The guru can give you words; he can give you an explanation, the symbols of the mind, but the symbol is not the real, and if you are caught in the symbol, you will never find the way.
Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?
You are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself.
Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, but it is awareness, from moment to moment.