' Unself yourself '...

"Unself yourself!

Until you see your self as a speck of dust
you cannot possibly reach that place;

self could never breathe that air,

so wend your way there without self."



-Hakim Sanai
The Walled Garden of Truth
Translated and abridged by D. L. Pendlebury
London: Octagon, 1974, p. 36