You are not your mind

Love is an untamed force.
When we try to control it, it destroys us.
When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us.
When we try to understand it,
it leaves us feeling lost and confused
Paulo Coelho

You are not your mind. The sages have been telling us this for eons but how can we get our arms around it? Like a fish that will never truly know water unless it has left it, we need someone to catapult us out of our mind to get it. Meditation is a good first step towards mindfulness, but it is not an end in itself. Sooner or later we return from the meditation session and our mind is ready to jump back in action. Can we actually leave our mind behind? My hunch is sooner or later everyone who embarks on a spiritual quest will have an ‘out-of-self’ moment when the mind stands still.