Fleeting Ideas

“If I feel I am what I have, and I have nothing anymore, then I am not. That sense of identity which is based on ‘to be’ is entirely different, because that can never be taken away from me …

I feel, I see, I love, I’m sad.

All these human experiences that can be expressed in verbs, are human activities which are not dependent, which cannot be lost or destroyed. Therefore the person who’s sense of identity is based on what he is - that is to say, on the expression of his inner faculties, potentialities in the world, or in that sense what he does, or does not in an outward sense - he does not have the anxiety to lose himself because something may be taken away from him. He is really free from that danger.”