The annihilation that is prerequisite to rebirth

Untitled (black and white photograph) by Paul Politis
Untitled (black and white photograph) by Paul Politis

“The individual … no longer resists the annihilation that is prerequisite to rebirth in the realization of truth, and so becomes ripe, at last, for the great at-one-ment … His personal ambitions being totally dissolved, he becomes, that is to say, an anonymity.”
-Joseph Campbell