No self-definition is valid...

Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be.

You are already perfect, here and now. The perfectible is not you. You imagine yourself to be what you are not. Stop it. It is the cessation that is important, not what you are going to stop.

Get rid of all ideas about yourself, even of the idea that you are God. No self-definition is valid.

To be, you must be nobody. To think yourself to be something, or somebody, is death and hell.



-Nisargadatta Maharaj from I Am That