"The single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: Learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger."

-- Eckhart Tolle

You are not what you think. I know you think you are what you think, that most of the time you believe that your thoughts are you, but they're not. You are the consciousness behind the thoughts, the energy out of which the thoughts are created. You are the context not the content, the ocean not the waves.

Gaps in the endless line of thoughts that parade through your head, those brief respites from thinking, are opportunities for you to "fall into the gap," to bathe, ala Siddhartha, in the river of consciousness. Thoughts are like clouds passing through the clear blue sky of consciousness, like a bad burrito passing through your intestinal tract post haste.

Enough mixed metaphors for you? My point is that you are not who you think you are. No matter how erudite, insightful or wise your thoughts may seem, they are not you, you are not them. Enjoy them, use them, even humor them a little -- just don't identify with them!

Identify instead with consciousness unbound, the energy that pervades and sustain all and everything. Call it Tao or Holy Spirit or Atman or Buddha Nature, or Fred, just don't settle for anything less!