I really appreciate the reminder not to over-identify with every passing thought—it’s such a helpful first step in finding mindfulness.

As I have meditated and practiced mindfulness over many years now I have realized that as awareness deepens, the sense of “I” seems to both widen and dissolve at the same time.

It starts to feel less like “I am here and my thoughts are over there, and outside objects as well as other people are in a different space too” and more like everything I experience—thoughts, emotions, sensations, interactions with others, even the sense of an observer—arises within a single, unified “I.”

In that space, you begin to observe almost everything on a universal-unified level. Sometimes this mindset is harder to achieve than others, but in this state I almost find myself not thinking, but rather acting on a near instinctual level in accordance to this observation, as my thoughts all arrive at the same time their for I don’t need to spent time analyzing them anymore.

Not a disagreement, just another angle that’s been opening up for me—curious whether you’ve explored this more unity-based perspective too.