The reality is that the gurus, spiritual teachers and people that we revere the most are the ones who can cope with the world the best. We want to get out of stress and pain. So we glorify, worship, idolize and hold ourselves up against the standard of these people who, unlike us, seem to not be in distress within the world at all. But be careful. Because he who copes with the world the best is often the one who will do the very least to change it. Instead, he will often do the very most to teach everyone else how to cope with it.