Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self

You then no longer derive your identity, your sense of who you are, from the incessant stream of thinking that in the old consciousness you take to be yourself. What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that. The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought—or the

The whole of Advaita reduces to a series of very simple and testable assertions: Consciousness is the prior condition of every experience; the self or ego is an illusory appearance within it; look closely for what you are calling “I,” and the feeling of being a separate self will disappear; what remains, as a matter of experience, is a field of con

Your consciousness is pretty lost, constantly focusing on this false mental concept of self. Fortunately, there is a way out—it’s called witness consciousness. If you can learn to sit back and simply watch that voice inside your head, you can free yourself.