The Quest Begins

And so the quest of quests is to discover who you are. There is no quest quite like it. As the outer quest exhausts itself, like a bucking bronco in the late afternoon, the inner quest gathers pace. But where to begin?
The preliminary challenge is to let go of your disguise: what is not you. Unreality obscures reality. So let's put some stakes in the ground: You are not your thoughts that come and go. You are not your emotions that also arrive and disappear. You are not even the molecules that come into, comprise for a while, and then leave your body. You have had thousands of thoughts, a myriad of emotions, and billions of atoms. None of them stayed, but you are still here.
Now, here's a little experiment. Hold your hand out in front of you, look at it, and consider who you are. What comes to mind: the hand? the observer of the hand? the thought you have about the whole process? As you identify with some thing, you lose yourself.
What if you can be the silent observer within, no thing, a point of peace. What if you can shift your awareness there, and keep it there, enjoying the whole play. The drama continues, the ebb and flow, but you are unperturbed. Yes, you are in the world, but you are not of it.