Michael James

 This individual consciousness our feeling ‘I am a person, a separate individual, a mind or soul confined within the limits of a body’ is merely an imagination, a false and distorted form of our pure consciousness ‘I am’, but it is nevertheless the root cause of all desire and all misery. Unless we give up this individual consciousness, this false notion that we are separate from God, we can never be free of desire, nor of misery, which is the inevitable consequence of desire.