... traditions. Note the similarity in the following two quotations, onefrom the East and the other from the West:Having the semblance of the qualities of all the senses,Yet freed from all the senses,Unattached, ... serve other people.97 THE NATURE OF PERSONAL IDENTITY The changing contents of our con-sciousness (the sensations, thoughts,feelings, etc.) are one thing, while the “I,” the self, the center of ... greater than the sum of its parts.Note that this process of synthesis is again the same one that we haveseen from the earliest months of life. Mark’s bringing together the Lover and the Worker...