Paul Brunton, The Wisdom of the Overself, p. 179: “We barely | Seeds of Awareness

Paul Brunton, The Wisdom of the Overself, p. 179:

“We barely know our self; we clutch a mere surface fragment of it and remain content. We do not live but merely keep alive. We fulfil our own being only when we enter into the higher self. God’s deputy to us being the Overself [Higher Self], it should constitute our supreme value, that which is most worthwhile in life. Loyalty to this larger self is not mere sentimentality but practical wisdom. Selfishness is simply the ignorant opposition of the limited personality against its proper and superior self. If we have the courage to pull the bleeding roots of this opposition out of our own nature without waiting for karmic experience to do it for us, we may advance to the next and higher stage at a bound.”

Brunton was a genuine 20th century truth-seeker. https://paulbrunton.org/bio-illustrated.php