" The poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, experienced this realization early in life: “Since boyhood, by repeating my own name silently, an intense awareness of individuality came, then seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being, and this was not a confused state, but clear and sure, utterly beyond words, where death was an almost laughable impossibility. "

― Dan Millman , The Hidden School: Return of the Peaceful Warrior