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For anyone to try to lose his personality in someone else's, even in a guru's, is a desertion of his own divine powers. Nevertheless, in the case of beginners it cannot be helped--where they are seeking a guru's assistance. But the sooner the guru makes them ready or instructs them to stop this practice and to lose their personality in their own higher self, the better for them. It is a question of direction. In merging in someone else's personality they are going outside of themselves; in merging in their own higher being they are going inside.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 6 : Student-Teacher > # 624