It isn't acceptable to minimize his teachings in that way... If that is how you live your life, by those few words, then that's your prerogative. However the most important thing that you must do, if you say you are following Jesus, is to love him (god) with all your heart. When you develop this love relationship with god it becomes easier to follow his path. In every action and circumstance you can be assured that if you love god before anything, god's grace will follow you.

The duality of the human thought process is false. The ego, or the "I" that people refer to is a mental concept with no basis. The only way to follow Jesus is to suppress duality and the ego.