He was out to reveal a spunky, sparky, spontaneous self which had in fact never existed.
He therefore had never leaped through the temporal vortex to the present, and so his future self no longer existed in this time period.
The self does not exist in a name.
He'd shown her a darker self that she'd never imagined existed.
And the young living self she mourned for had scarcely existed, it was the creature of her imagination.
The ultimate goal is to reach the summit of ruh, ultimate union with God, at which point the self no longer exists.
Theirs is the emptiness of a world where only the self exists.
Two selves could not exist separately in the zone of juxtaposition.
Her dance observed the universe in which self existed, and asked, "How did all this come to be here with me?"
She said that self does not exist.