I’ve been trying to wrap my head around it for a while now, and yeah, you are the conscious being that hears your thoughts, but how “deep” does that conscience go?
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In a nutshell, it means you can think about something without acting on it. Thoughts pop into your head all day long that you have *zero* control over. There’s always “voice” in your head telling you that it’s too damn nice outside to be stuck at work and you should take the rest of the day off, for example, or one that tells you to have another beer, you’ll be okay to drive. People who were raised in one society but switched to another still have thoughts that align with their old society all the time, as well.
When people say “you are not your thoughts,” they mean that what matters isn’t what pops into your head but what you do about it. Just because you have the thought in your head doesn’t mean you have to act on it, *especially* if it’s something that you recognize as being wrong. We *all* have thoughts that don’t align with who we are or what our society tolerates.
We, as thinking creatures, get to chose what we do about the thoughts that pop into our heads. We get to decide that we aren’t someone who takes a day off every time it’s nice outside, we aren’t someone who drives home drunk, no matter what that part of our brain says. Your actions are what makes you who you are.
You are not your thoughts.
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