the person ceases...

When you believe yourself to be a person, you
see persons everywhere.

In reality there are
no persons, only threads of memories and habits.

At the moment of realization the person ceases.

Identity remains, but identity is not a person, it
is inherent in the reality itself.

The person has
no being in itself;

it is a reflection in the mind
of the witness,

the 'I am', which again is a mode
of being.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

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"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973