“Immortality is freedom from the feeling: 'I am.' Yet it is not extinction. On the contrary, it is a state infinitely more real, aware and happy than you can possibly think of. Only self-consciousness is no more. Who would remain even to say 'I am the witness'? When there is no 'I am,' where is the witness? In the timeless state there no self to take refuge in.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj