The ego is at the same time a system of images and a cycle; it is a moving fabric made of images and tendencies; the tendencies come from our own substance, and the images are furnished by the environment. 

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We put ourselves into things, and we place things in ourselves, whereas our true being is independent of them. 

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Alongside this system of images and tendencies that constitutes our ego there is a myriad of other systems of images and tendencies.

Some of them are worse or less beautiful than our own, and others are better or more beautiful. 

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We are like foam ceaselessly renewed on the ocean of Existence. 

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But since God has put Himself into this foam, it is destined to become a sea of stars at the time of the final crystallization of spirits. 

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The tiny system of images must be come, when its terrestrial contingency is left behind, a star immortalized in the halo of Divinity.

This star can be conceived on various levels; the divine Names are its archetypes; beyond the stars burns the Sun of the Self in its blazing transcendence and in its blazing transcendence and in infinite peace. 

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Man does not choose; he follows his nature and his vocation, and it is God who chooses. 

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                                                                                                  Frithjof SCHUON