通常，我觉得我去了世界上一个遥远的地区，想起了我的真实身份。为什么应该这样做并不谜。剥夺了您的普通环境，您的朋友，日常工作，冰箱里装满了食物，壁橱里装满了衣服 - 随着所有这些东西，您被迫直接体验。这种直接的经验不可避免地会让您意识到那是谁拥有经验。这并不总是舒适，但总是令人振奋。
(Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.)