You are not your thoughts

So say some: you are not your thoughts.

But if not you, then who? I can only speak for many people, and David Leisure is my thoughts.

So said one: you are not your emotions.

I can see the benefits in putting some space between your emotions - positive and negative and just observing them, kindly, with curiosity.

But I don't like the suggestion that there's a separate 'you' above and beyond emotions. Some call this 'you', or rather, 'them', constant and unchanging. I suppose it could conceivably be constant and changing, say if it were changing at a constant rate. It's always better to clarify these things, things like butter.

Life is butter dream.

Just what is the unchanging you? I just don't believe it exists. Nothing is unchanging. But nothing else is. 

The you is a strange thing indeed, but it's so tied up with emotions and thoughts and everything else. Isolating and separating it seems to set up a lofty, kind, curious and venerable you, at ease with the torrents of reality below.

That doesn't feel right at all.

And what about cosmic consciousness? It's an old idea, but one of the most important I'm afraid. Terrified in fact.

But I learned recently that it's good to face your fears, except when they're too scary.

If we can just take 24 hours each day to be mindful of every possible thing, we may find our satisfaction with life to be at an all time high, among the many, many, many other things we would find, given how fucking mindful we've been.

Of course, if you lose sleep over any of this, I'd be happy to help you look for it. I can be contacted at all times.