I was reading Jesus The Teacher Within by Lawrence Freeman OSB and one passage struck me most forcibly. Jesus asks the question: Who do you say I am?

But the question we should ask ourselves is: Who am I?

If we ask it again and again the ego starts to fall away like a stick stirring a fire, it does its job and burns away just as our ego must burn away.

To make progress we must plumb the depths of our minds, drilling ever deeper to what lies within.

But I have always had this elusive thought that deep within it is not so much as there is nothing but a unity with everything.

In other words the ego or the individual is not predominant. Unity is.