Self-Elimination...

The goal of self-elimination which is held up before
us refers only to the animal and lower human selves.
It certainly does not refer to the annihilation of all
self-consciousness. The higher individuality always
remains. But it is so different from the lower one
that it does not make much sense to discuss it in
human language. Hence, those who have adequately
understood it write or talk little about its higher
mysteries. If the end of all existence were only a
merger at best or annihilation at worst, it would be a
senseless and sorry scheme of things. It would be
unworthy of the divine intelligence and discreditable
to the divine goodness. The consciousness stripped of
thought, which looks less attractive to you than the
hazards of life down here, is really a tremendous
enlargement of what thought itself tries to do.
Spiritual advance is really from a Less to a More.
There is nothing to fear in it and nothing to lose by
it--except by the standards and values of the
ignorant.......Paul Brunton