For the ego itself has its origins in an insane but illusory thought of death -- the belief that we can attack God in order to wrest a separate individual self from Him.

• 小我之所以会有这种疯狂却虚幻不实的念头，是因它相信可以藉此攻击上主，为的是要从?那儿夺取一个独立的身份。