I like your outlook very much. "Spirituality invites you to toss away the thoughts of others and come up with your own."― Neale Donald Walsch, The Complete Conversations with God. I do not read gurus. I have only read one book of NDW's, and it opened my mind to chart my own spiritual journey. I have much disdain for new age kumbaya stuff. I have said of it: "They have nothing to do with putting in the work behind the journey of transformation that is the goal of spiritual practice — of the journey without a destination." https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/spirituality-redefined-ff45cb53eaf2 Diana C of KTHT also writes about watching out for spiritual BS: https://medium.com/queen-s-children/signs-that-you-are-done-with-spiritual-bs-1e475faaaa29?source=user_profile---------46---------------------------- and https://medium.com/queen-s-children/be-discerning-of-the-spiritual-teachers-you-follow-work-with-7975b58c2fef?source=user_profile---------49----------------------------