What is important, is what one finds out as an outcome of that play; what one discovers in the end. Of course, the play begins with self-negation. And a person who likes to say twenty times in the day, "I", does not like to say, "I am not, Thou art." But he does not know that this claim of "I" is the root of all his trouble. It is this claim that makes him feel hurt by every little insult, by every little disturbance. The amount of pain that this illusion gives him is so great that it is just as well he got rid of it. But that is the last thing he would do. He would give up his last penny, but not the thought of "I." He would hold it; it is the dearest thing. That is the whole difficulty and the only hindrance on the spiritual path.