Salaam friend,
"Sitting in a sauna, bottled Avian with me, I think and drink and sweat then pee. Which molecules are me?"
Molecules have a half-life in a person, with most of them turn over every few years. Precious few stay a decade or longer. We are new creations being renewed at a very real level. Or, said a different way, you never step in the same river twice.
In this cyclic view it is interesting to consider air. It is possible to kill a man by simply shutting him in a box because he needs more connection to the world. This concept of breath is explored by many mystical practices.
The introductory post sort of religion can be called truth. Truth, al Haqq, is one of God's names. It is sort of like this: I don't know the farsi word for fire, but I know fire.
I could call it Baha'i as it is in the writings. I could call it Christian as the truth shall set you free. It is Islam as it is about struggle and submission. It is Native American. It is a Buddhist practice. And so on.
It is deeper than religions. It is closer to "Be" and it is; a fundamental word in the vocabulary of life.
It is vaguely sufi.
wa salaam,
sirat