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The mixture of thoughts and feelings along with the body which a man considers as himself, which is the identity that he accepts, is hard to banish willingly "and imaginatively" into a condition of oblivion and unconsciousness. It would be harder still to take out of the picture all attachment to his own person and to put into it the attributes of consciousness.

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 4 : Detaching from The Ego (Part I) > # 285