The Strangness of the "I"

In a recent email, Gregory Thompson writes...

I have been focusing on the "presence" beyond the "I" in prayer and reflection. And trying to stay with God as a "Thou" (certainly, I reason, God is no less a subjective "person" than myself, if absolutely more than personal, too). There is something deeply mysterious about this connection--this "I" in me that is objectified by something beyond it--some part that says "I am I, but more than I.... So the prayer goes "Lord, this "I" presents itself to "Thee", in space and time..." Weird. eh?
--gt