strings: Is there such an element to dissolve the self? Please see what we are doing. We are forcing the self into a corner. If you allow yourself to be forced into the corner, you will see what will happen. We should like there to be an element which is timeless, which is not of the self, which, we hope, will come and intercede and destroy the self—and which we call God. Now is there such a thing which the mind can conceive ? There may be or there may not be; that is not the point.