"<p>If you abstract yourself from everything you know as your being: that's actually where your being begins.<br />Do not confuse your body, your mind, your person with your being, with yourself. It is only your auxiliary; it is only your baggage, which is also the guardian of your needs, also a stooping burden.<br />Your body is not you, for it is only a substance that is constantly changing: at the age of forty, there is not a single part of your twenty-year-old body. But neither are you your emotions and your intellect, for you were not yet, when you looked at them from the cradle. Who art you? the boundless that appeared between the boundaries at your conception.<br />If you consider your bounded person as yourself, do a Copernican inversion: consider the boundless totality as yourself, and your person as a temporary bound, a mere apparition, a "not-self".<br />Where sensation, impassivity, thought, thoughtlessness, change, immutability cease; where you would think there is nothing: there your very being begins.</p>"