A transient shadow...

Our attachment to the ego is natural.

It arises because we are unconsciously attached to that which is behind it, to the Overself.

Only, we are misled by ignorance wholly to concentrate on the apparent "I" and wholly to ignore the unseen, enduring self of which it is but a transient shadow.

The "I" which trembles or enjoys in the time-series is not the real "I."



— Notebooks Category 8: The Ego >
Chapter 2: I-thought > # 18
Paul Brunton