“What Are You?”
“‘It is the same between bodies in different lifetimes,’ the saint explained. ‘In this lifetime you were a baby and later you will be an old man. In the next, you will be a baby once again. The cycle goes on until you succeed in freeing yourself from it by realizing that you are not that body. You are the Pure Consciousness that animates it. When consciousness leaves the body there is death. When consciousness comes to the body, there is life. The consciousness is what remains consistent beyond the duration of any given body.’”