Anything that you can subtract from your consciousness without losing your sense of “I-ness,” you are not that. You must peel off these titles from the soul. “I think, but I am not the thought. I feel, but I am not the feeling. I will, but I am not the will.” What is left? The you that knows you exist; the you that feels you exist — through the proof given by intuition, the soul’s unconditioned knowing of its own existence. That is what I learned in India: to be centralized in the Self and constantly remain in that unbounded attitude… - Paramahansa Yogananda.