What you are is what you get. If you are continuously getting rubbish from the world, you know who you are. If you are constantly being mistreated in this life, then you know who you are.
The Saints have lived like kings, even though the world has often prosecuted them. Because their kingship is within, hence all their experiences are in the light of kingship. It doesn’t matter what happens to them. Their experience is always that of themselves.