Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

~ Paul Brunton

[Notebooks> Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 2: I-thought: 17]

One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the messiah?"
"No", answered Buddha.
"Then are you a healer?"
"No", Buddha replied.
"Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted.
"No, I am not a teacher."
"Then what are you?"
asked the student, exasperated.
"I am awake", Buddha replied.

After you have rejected what was to be rejected and accepted what was to be accepted, then only acceptance remains hollow. At the end you'll say, "What's this acceptance for even? I don't need it". Then you'll arrive at "Who am I?".

~ Swami Amar Jyoti

The question "Who am I?" is not really meant to get an answer, the question "Who am I?" is meant to dissolve the questioner.

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

Out of the intensity of the consciousness of the individuality, the

individuality itself seemed to dissolve and fade away into

boundless being; and this not a confused state, but the clearest of

the clear, the surest of the sure; utterly beyond words; where

death was an almost laughable impossibility, the loss of personality

(if so it were) seeming no extinction but the only true life.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Your world is one of barriers and fences,
because the I in you is one of barriers and fences.
Some things it would fence out as alien to itself.
Some things it would fence in as kindred to itself.
Yet that outside the fence is ever breaking in;
and that within the fence is ever breaking out.
For they; being offspring of the same mother
even your I would not be set apart.

~ Mikhail Naimy

You are a divine elephant with amnesia
Trying to live in an ant Hole.

~ Hafiz