“What is my identity?"
"Nothing," said the Master.
"You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?" said the incredulous disciple.
"Nothing that can be labeled.”

—  Anthony de Mello

said the Master.
Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 109

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