Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
When you say "I have a belief" there is you, your identity, and there is the belief that you hold. The belief is not your identity, as that belief could be removed and you would still remain. It is no different than someone who says "I am the clothes I wear."
That again is false. The clothes cover the person, they are not the person.
The true identity is not what we wear, or what we believe, etc.
Our true identity never changes from birth to death.
Our true identity uses the intellectual part of the mind to make decisions on what to do, what to say, what to believe, etc., but the intellectual mind is just a tool used by our true identity. No matter what someone says, does, or believes, the "I" of "I believe _______" or "I do _________" or "I think ______" etc....the "I" part never changes. The "I" part is always whole, there is never a fractional part of "I".
That "I" is our real identity.
That which is the "I" of "I experience ______" is never the experience, but the observer of all experience. Our identity always remains apart from what we think, what we do, what we believe....and consequently what we think, what we do, what we believe never changes our true identity.
That people falsely identify themselves as their beliefs, or what they do is common.
What we think, do, or believe changes as we gather more knowledge of the world we live in. That is good! Sometimes the knowledge will be proved untrue, but we wouldn't know it was untrue unless we questioned its truthfulness.