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What We Call "Myself"

... when one thinks of “myself” one thinks of the body. That is
the usual thing. The personal reality is the body’s reality. It is only
when one has made an effort for inner development and tried to
find something that is a little more stable in one’s being, that one
can begin to feel that this “something” which is permanently con-
scious throughout all ages and all change, this something must
be “myself”.
CWM 9: 310 The Mother

To become ourselves is the one thing to be done; but the true
ourself is that which is within us, and to exceed our outer self of
body, life and mind is the condition for this highest being, which is
our true and divine being, to become self-revealed and active. It is
only by growing within and living within that we can find it; once
that is done, to create from there the spiritual or divine mind, life,
body and through this instrumentation to arrive at the creation of
a world which shall be the true environment of a divine living,—
this is the final object that Force of Nature has set before us. This
then is the first necessity, that the individual, each individual, shall
discover the spirit, the divine reality within him and express that
in all his being and living.
CWSA 21: 1059 Sri Aurobindo

... the egoistic mind and life we now and apparently are, must
first surrender itself for transmutation into the hands of that
inmost secret Divinity within us.
CWSA 19 : 309-10 Sri Aurobindo

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