It is far too simplistic to state that you gained your identity of who you consider yourself to be from your parents, religion, or the educational system, and yet most people can certainly recount specific incidences in which their identity was affected in one way or another in one or more of those three environments. But, of course, there’s a lot more going on. Your identity is almost certainly going to be intertwined with reference points outside of yourself.

If you accept the notion that your Self is concealed by way of the ego, by way of your mind, that, of course, it would be impossible to see who the other person, much less anybody, really is.

Said in a different way, if you don’t know who you are, then how can you know who the other person is?