Agree about many that get stuck on L1, arguing that this is the ultimate. Often these are the same peeps who say that no teacher is needed. Blind leading the blind.

I would argue however that those who have reached the top are the most expansive in mind, accepting and bequeathed with an out of this world wisdom in many cases, AND seeing the commonality of many genuine, spiritual paths (if practiced)

To wit:


Not Christian or Jew or
Muslim, not Hindu,
Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen.
Not any religion

or cultural system. I am
not from the east
or the west, not
out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not
natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all.
I do not exist,

am not an entity in this
world or the next,
did not descend from
Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is
the placeless, a trace
of the traceless.
Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved,
have seen the two
worlds as one and
that one
call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner,
only that breath breathing

~Rumi