Heirloom
Before you are a person, you are a capacity.
If you strip away the content of your identity, your thoughts, feelings, perceptions, sensations, name, and history, what remains? It is not nothing. There is still an aware presence. There is a knowing that is capable of noticing that everything else is not there.
This knowing is the fundamental layer of reality. It cannot be seen, because it is that which sees. It cannot be conceived, because it is that which conceives. It has no dimensions, no age, and no location, yet it is the necessary precondition for dimension, age, and location. It is the prerequisite for the person.
The person is the content. Awareness, the real self, is the singular, timeless capacity in which that content takes place.