Do you now live so that you are conscious of yourself as an individual; that in each of your relations in which you come into touch with the outside world, you are conscious of yourself, and that at the same time you are related to yourself as an individual?

Kierkegaard, S., and Douglas V. Steere. Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing. Reprint ed. Lexington, Ky.: Feather Trail, 2009.