Eve Marie

“3. You are not your mind. Just as you talk about “your” body, you also talk about “your” mind. This implies that you are the owner of the mind. “I was thinking this morning” means that you are the thinker of the thought, the “I” who thinks it. When spiritual teacher Nisargadatta Maharaj was asked if the mind is the true person, he replied, “Examine closely and you will see that the mind is seething with thoughts. It may go blank occasionally, but it does it for a time and reverts to its usual restlessness. A becalmed mind is not a peaceful mind. You say you want to pacify your mind. Is he, who wants to pacify the mind, himself peaceful?” What a great line this is: “Is he, who wants to pacify the mind, himself peaceful?” You, reading this book, want to have a peaceful mind. Is the you who wants to have the peaceful mind yourself peaceful? That’s who you are. Again, it’s the observer—that’s who you are. You are not the thought, you are the observer of the thought.”
― Wayne W. Dyer, Happiness Is the Way