With the body, the thoughts, and the emotions, the ego seems to complete itself as an entity. But where do we get this feeling of I from? There is only one way to know the answer to this question: the way of meditation. This burrows beneath the three mentioned components and penetrates into the residue, which is found to be nothing in particular, only the sense of Be-ing. And this is the real source of the I notion, the self-feeling. Alas! The source does not ordinarily reveal itself, so we live in its projection, the ego, alone. We are content to be little, when we could be great.

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

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