But a verse to remember and repeat as a mantra might be useful to someone trying to resist the slide into cultishness
I suspect that ritualistic behavior is unlikely to aid in resisting the slide into cultishness. Quite the opposite.
Perhaps you should study the people who are exposed to teachings that seem to favor cultishness, find value in the teachings, but do not enter the cult.
I am your hero!
I am your master!
Learn my arts,
Seek my way.
Learn as I learned,
Seek as I sought.
Envy me!
Aim at me!
Rival me!
Transcend me!
Look back,
Smile,
And then—
Eyes front!
I was never your city,
Just a stretch of your road.
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