When people say 'I'

"When people say 'I', do they always know who they really mean?
When they say, 'I am... ill or well, unhappy or happy; I want...
money, a car, a wife; I have... this wish, that interest, the
other opinion', they think they are talking of themselves, but
that is where they are wrong.
As humans have never studied themselves deeply enough to know
their true nature, they identify at all times with the 'I' that
is represented by their physical body, their instincts, their
desires, feelings and thoughts. But if they were to try, now, to
find themselves through study and meditation, they would actually
discover that, beyond all appearances, their true self is one
with God himself. For, in reality, there is not a multitude of
separate beings but one Being working through all beings, giving
them life and manifesting within them, even though they are not
aware of it. Once they are able to sense this reality, humans
will draw close to the divine Source from which they all
originate."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov