"If you inhibit thought (and persevere) you come at length to a region of consciousness below or behind thought.....and a realisation of an altogether vaster self than that to which we are accustomed. And since the ordinary consciousness, with which we are concerned in daily life, is before all things founded on the little local self.....it follows that to pass out of that is to die to the ordinary self and the ordinary world.

It is to die in the ordinary sense, but in another, it is to wake up and find that the "I", one's real, most intimate self, pervades the Universe and all other beings-that the mountains and the sea and the stars are a part of one's body and that one's soul is in touch with the souls of all creatures."