the sense of "I"

The sense of "I " which should have been identified with the whole universe of your experience, was instead cut off and
isolated as a detached observer of that universe. In the preceding chapter we saw that this unity of organism
and environment is a physical fact. But when you know for sure that your separate ego is a fiction, you actually
feel yourself as the whole process and pattern of life. Experience and experiencer become one experiencing,
known and knower one knowing. Each organism experiences this from a different standpoint and in a different way, for each organism is the universe experiencing itself in endless variety. From: 'The Book' Alan Watts