Please read and contemplate quotes #633-636 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
Only a fool, not a wise man, is deluded by his own ideas; it is a fool who thinks that the imperishable is perishable and gets deluded. Egotism is but an idea, based on a false association of the Self with the physical elements.
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