"For at the moment when the ego surrenders and gives up the battle, f inding that the attempt to make itself like God is bound to fail, the Self awakens to its own independence. In surrender the ego thoroughly accepts and admits its own finitude. But who accepts? Who knows the finitude of the ego? In reality, the Self has at last given up its identification with the ego, perceiving the ego as a finite object quite distinct from its own proper being. And in that instant the Self knows its own eternity and infinity, realizing that from the beginning the entire drama has had no more effect upon its essential nature than the ripples in a pool upon the sun whose reflected image they break and scatter."
- Allan Watts.
The supreme identity: An essay on oriental metaphysic and the christrian religion. Involution and Evolution pg. 150
