Identification With The True Self

I find it easy to identify with and attach to the material/physical aspects of this world, the money, power and prestige.  When I was young those aspects seemed real and worthy of pursuing.  As I get older and having achieved many of those things, I recognize them as hollow and transient, but I am still part of a culture that honors money, power and prestige.  I now identify with and pursue my sense of Self that transcends the material in favor of connecting with the unchangeable, formless absolute, love and/or God.  That sense is neither hollow, nor transient and is very real.  The only way that I have succeeded in “pursuing” that sense is to cease identifying with the material and be with the absolute, simply allow it.