Meher Baba on Higher self

“Spiritual freedom has to be won by oneself for oneself through watchful and unfailing war against the lower self and the lower desires. (p 2313)”

“Unless you go against your lower self, you cannot unite with your higher Self. Now what is the lower self? That which makes you think you are small, that which makes you feel that you are not satisfied, not happy, that which makes others see you as small. So the meaning of going against the lower self is to transform this in quite the opposite direction... Remain pleased and contented, happy and satisfied. When you are displeased, unhappy or upset and moody, it is your lower self asserting itself. (p. 2143)”