Eckhart Tolle

But who are we when we detach from our own mind?

Very good question.

Yes.

So at first, you were identified with the mind.

conceptual mind, the story-making mind, and you, your sense of identity was the story of me.

Now, when the awareness arises,

Your sense of who you are, your sense of identity begins to shift from being lodged in the conceptual mind, the voice in the head.

It goes to a deeper place and you realize

who you are in your essence is actually the awareness itself.

And that is an amazing realization.

In other words, this is a dimension of consciousness that is, I call it, beyond thought.

Thinking is a wonderful thing.

Thinking is a very powerful tool for creating.

However, if thinking is all we have and we look for our identity,

in the mind, then that is very limiting.

If thinking is used as a tool, it's very powerful and empowering and can be very creative.

But if thinking becomes self-serving, in other words, you're completely identified with this stream of thinking that for most people never stops

See, all through the day, they're talking to themselves.

There's a voice in the head.

Sometimes they talk, they say, I. Sometimes they talk to themselves and say, you.