“If your father hadn't meet your mother, would you be here? Now of course somebody would be here, because he might have met somebody else. Would that be you? Of course it would. Don't you see, you can only be you by being someone. But every someone is you. Every someone is 'I'. That's your name. You say it’s 'me.’ 'I' am here. And everybody feels that 'I' in the same way. It’s the same feeling.”

— Alan Watts