Russell
"Man's body is compressed motion, which encircles man's invisible Mind-Source in true circles. He can never depart from these true circles. His thinking and his forming body cells encircle them without knowing that he is but manifesting his own immortal Self, or without knowing that the immortal Self which centers him is continually whispering to whatever of Mind-awareness has yet unfolded within him. The noise and turmoil of
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outer-sensing drown out those inner whisperings for long aeons, but there comes a day in his unfolding when he begins to hear that Inner Voice. More long ages pass before he knows that the Cosmos of all that IS is speaking to him and that he IS that Cosmos." [Atomic Suicide, page 169-170]
Manly Palmer Hall
"Man is essentially a permanent and immortal principle; only his bodies pass through the cycle of birth and death. The immortal is the reality; the mortal is the unreality. During each period of earth life, reality thus dwells in unreality, to be liberated from it temporarily by death and permanently by illumination." [Manly Palmer Hall]
See Also
Christ Consciousness
Cosmic Consciousness
God Self
I Am
OVERSELF
Self Realization
Son
Soul