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I. --All day long, from morning till night, we are using it:--I did this. I mean to do that. I ought. I shall. I will. I think. I wish. I love. I hate. I remember. I forget. And so on and on--ever ringing the changes on this little word in all its cases
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I and
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and
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and
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I want to set you thinking. Who or what is this
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I, this
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Oh, there is nothing mysterious about it--I know very well what I mean by it. 'I' means myself.
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I, that when he says I can, I do, I will, I ought, I remember, the
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I means to him something much deeper and more mysterious than that. Ask yourself, each one, what do you mean by
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I
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out of certain chemical substances. In a scientific museum I can stand before a glass case and see neatly labelled the exact portions of lime and silica and iron and water and other elements which compose my body. I know that this body is continually changing its substance like the rainbow in the sky, like the eddy round a stone in the river. The body I have to-day is no more the body of last year than the fire on my hearth to-night is the fire that was there this morning. I have had a dozen different bodies since I was born, but I am the same still. Every thinking man knows that the
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I, the real self, stands behind the body looking out through the windows of the eyes, receiving messages through the portals of the ears. It rules the body, it possesses the body. It says,
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I have a body.
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This body is a thing belonging to me.