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Not Descartes' formula "I think, therefore I am" but the mystic's "The Soul is within me, therefore I am." For Descartes' "I" is relative and changeful, whereas the mystic's is absolute and permanent.

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1 : What Am I? > # 47