“You Are Not the Body”
“‘Think of yourself,’ she replied. ‘You were an infant body, a toddler body, an adolescent body, and an adult body. Someday you will be an old body and then a dead body. Through all these changes of the body, you remained you. The body changed completely, but the essence that is you never changed. You recognize yourself as that baby who first housed your soul, as the student who busied himself with his books, as the young man who went to work in the world. There is continuity of identity despite complete change of body.’”