enlightening, kind of

I've been a little anxious lately - mostly about my future and if I'm doing what I really want to be doing, blah blah blah.... Then I found this quote, and it made me feel a little bit better:

There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realizing its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being. - Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon by Wei Wu Wei

One question remains: how is ego disidentification gonna pay the bills so that the Captain can spend the rest of his life on the couch eating bon bons??