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Whoever enters into the philosophic experience for the first time and thus penetrates into the real nature of the ego, discovers to his surprise that instead of being a centre of life as it pretends to be it is really a centre of death--for it immensely minimizes, obstructs, and shuts out the undisclosed life-current in man.

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1 : What Am I? > # 113