make a fish unfish

There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something 

other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), 

and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and 

play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to dis-identify 

themselves with the ego, by realizing its unreality, and by becoming aware of their 

eternal identity with pure being. 

~ Wei Wu Wei