Jay L. Garfield

it is characterized as unitary, as the witness of all that we perceive, as the agent of our actions, and as the enjoyer of our aesthetic experience. It is regarded as that which is always the subject, never the object; and as that which persists through life despite changes in body and mind, and which even persists beyond death and in transmigration.

but are never identical to any mind or body; instead, you are the bearer of that mind and body, which are just as much objects to your subjectivity as any external phenomenon.