Saint Sophrony on personality vs individualism

A free, non-pre-determined hypostasis can only be created as pure potentiality, intended to be actualised subsequently. So, then, we are not yet entirely hypostases: we are going through the more or less lengthy process of becoming--of converting an ‘atomised’ into a hypostatic form of being. The concept of Person [hypostasis] must not be confused with the concept of the individual--(in Greek ἄτομον, the result of the fall of man). They are actually two poles of the human being. One expresses the last degree of division, the other indicates the ‘image of God’ in which Adam was made, in whose entrails all mankind was potentially enclosed. This is the pattern manifested to us by the Word made flesh. In our apprehension of God, therefore, we do not transfer our experience of the limitation of the individual to Divine Being, in order afterwards to deny in Him the hypostatic character and, consequently, cast about for a Supra-Personal Absolute.

- Saint Sophrony (Sakharov) of Essex