The Successful Mystic...

The successful mystic certainly comes into contact with his real "I."
But if this contact is dependent upon meditational trance, it is
necessarily an intermittent one. He cannot obtain a permanent contact
unless he proceeds further and widens his aspiration to achieve contact
with the universal "I." There is therefore a difference between the
interior "I" and the universal "I," but it is a difference only of
degree, not of kind, for the latter includes the former.

— Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 2: Phases of
Mystical Development > # 257.......Paul Brunton