You are not a thing. You are not a body-thing or a mental-thing or an emotional-thing or a thing with a history in time. You are no-thing. You are consciousness itself. Let go of your attachment to thing-ness, and you will awaken to that which is the source of all things. You are that source. Go directly to that source. Don’t waste your lifetime defining yourself as a thing. Wake up from that dream, and you are free.

~ Adyashanti (20th-21st century American mystic)