~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

"How bad do you want to give up your ego? Some of us are so caught up into our lives that we think are important, that we’re actually afraid to give up the ego in its entirety. Because we are afraid of the unknown. We say something like this to ourselves, 'At least now I know where I am and what I've got, or with who I'm with. But if I give everything up, I might just be nothing at all.'

But, the nothing at all is God, what you call God. The nothing at all is bliss. It is something that cannot be explained or cannot be defined. But if you really knew what it was, you would fight like hell to get there."