Meditation allows us to relax our grip on "me" because we are able to see the thoughts not so much as our personal identity, but more as the effects of the speed of our mind. We gain perspective. We can see the thoughts come and go. We're not so limited by them. Suddenly everything falls into place. We might have spent our entire life — and many lifetimes over, according to the Buddhist teachings — identifying with the movement of our mind. Now mindfulness and awareness present us with the revolutionary opportunity to observe that movement without being swept into it.
— Sakyong Mipham, Turning the Mind Into An Ally