When we think of that sense, that feeling, or that inclination that makes us affirm the word, “I,” we realize that it is difficult to point out what this “I” is, what its character is, for it is something that is beyond human comprehension. That is why a person who wishes to explain, even to himself, what it is, points to what is nearest to him, declaring, “This is the one whom I have called, ‘I’.”
Therefore, every soul who has, so to speak, identified itself with anything has identified itself with the body, its own body, because that is the thing that one feels and realizes to be immediately next to one and that is intelligible as one’s being.
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