Self-Elimination Quotes

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.

My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.

Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.

How can I dispose of myself with it?

This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the fact that there is no such existence from the first.

If somebody wants to shoot up and die in front of you, more power to them. The herd has a way of thinning itself out.

If I were on 'Survivor,' I might be the first off the island.

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.