What Does It Mean to Exit Ourselves?

Exiting ourselves means exiting our egoistic nature, disengaging from our physical self, and finding our spiritual self.

How does this work? We feel the corporeal, physical world in our human egoistic nature, where we wish to benefit ourselves at the expense of others and nature at every given moment. We can feel a much more expansive spiritual world via an opposite quality to our egoism — altruism, which is also called “the quality of bestowal.”

The exit from the egoistic quality of reception and entrance into the altruistic quality of bestowal brings about a sensation of a new world. It is a state that exists, but which we cannot see before we adjust our senses to perceive it. It reveals itself when we change our point of view from wishing to absorb fulfillment into ourselves to wishing to bestow fulfillment outwardly upon others and nature.