Have you ever wondered "Who am I"? How would you describe your identity to yourself or to someone else.
Do you identify yourself with your physical body, even though it has changed over time? Possibly, you identify yourself as being an embodied soul? Maybe you identify yourself by your name, or your physical characteristics such as your gender, height, build, age, eye color, hair color and style, skin color, and the like? Perhaps you identify yourself by your personality traits, temperament, or by your educational attainment, profession, employment experiences, or your race, ethnicity, heritage, nationality, marital status, sexual preference, language preference, political, social, religious, or other group affiliations, economic status, whether are not you are a parent, and the like. Maybe you would be content to merely identify yourself as being a "child of God."
Or maybe you identify with your subjective self as the "person" with your own unique experiences, thoughts, dreams, and memories? If so, who is the "person" inside of you who is having these experiences, thoughts, dreams, and memories? Maybe, you are the "Observer" who is watching the "person" in your mind who is having these thoughts. Of course, you could continue infinitum imagining this "observer" who is watching the person who is watching the person, much like the illusion of seeing multiple images of yourself getting smaller and smaller along the mirrors inside a "Fun House."
But are these descriptors who you really are?
Eventually, as we begin to let go of our descriptors and thoughts, surrender, and fall into the depths of our being, we begin to discover our "True Self," who is one in union with God.