"Actually, I met up with Buddhism only at the end of my journey, after the no-self experience...Initially, when I looked into Buddhism, I did not find the experience of no-self there either; yet I intuited that it had to be there. The falling away of the ego is common to both Hinduism and Buddhism. Therefore, it would not account for the fact that Buddhism became a separate religion, nor would it account for the Buddhists’ insistence on no eternal Self — be it divine, individual, or the two in one. I felt that the key difference between these two religions was the no-self experience, the falling away of the true Self, Atman-Brahman." - Bernadette Roberts (born 1931) is a former Carmelite nun and contemplative in the Catholic tradition.
http://realization.org/p/bernadette-roberts/bodian.roberts-interview.html
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