In you there is a thinker. What is that thinker? Is there a thinker without thought? Thought has created the thinker because it realises its nature, its changeable nature, its limited nature, and creates the thinker as something permanent: ‘I am, I must be.’ The thinker becomes the permanent entity created by thought because thought feels it is changing, and so it must create something permanent, stable, secure.
From Public Talk 2, Bombay (Mumbai), 9 January 1977