Accept yourself. But then you will look like an animal. You will not look like a man because your concept of man is in your ideals. That is why we go on teaching others not to be like animals, and everyone is an animal. What can you do? You ARE an animal. Accept your animality. And the moment you accept your animality, you have done the first thing to go beyond animals - because no animal knows that it is an animal, only man can know. That is going beyond. You cannot go beyond by denying.
Acceptance is transcendence. And if you accept yourself totally, suddenly you are thrown to your center.
