What you call your consciousness is a sort of reflection, a gleam, of a higher, more universal consciousness, which is you in a sense, yes, but in another sense is very definitely not you.

Sangharakshita (1925 CE-2018 CE), Sangharakshita (born Dennis Philip Edward Lingwood; was a British spiritual teacher and writer, and the founder of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, which in 2010 was renamed the Triratna Buddhist Community.