"Mind attacks" on the spiritual journey to self-realization - DO NOT GIVE UP

That is the thing. The mind will keep coming back and nagging who you think you are (the personal identity), and each and everytime it comes, shift the attention towards the awareness which is aware of it in the present moment. The minds technique is to comeback around everytime, and hurt and molest the personal identity. It will keep coming but you simply stay aware of being aware. No hurt can be done if there is no identification with the personal identity which is appearing to be hurt. It is helping you become more resilient to mind attacks, so you can be with and as the awareness that you are all the time while having the power and clarity to discern between what is true and what is false. Having faith in the love, compassion, joy and peace of the existence which you know, is the key to not giving up. You are the universe itself. As you rest the attention on the ever-present awareness it is becoming natural again to be what you truly are, freedom itself. We sometimes say 'Yea I know being aware of being aware" but it is most useful when the mind attacks. When the mind attacks, it seems as if we have nothing to do, simply have to let it pass. Otherwise we identify as the resistance, and it only intensifies the suffering caused by it. In these moments it is the most important to be aware of being aware, so the awareness can cleanse the personal identity, once you see the personal identity is not your true nature, it is not original to your being, it dissolves back to emptiness. Everything must be dissolved into emptiness. Emptiness is what you are. Let everything come and let everything go, You are that in which all comings and goings are appearing and are perceived. You are unchanging. - Sebastian Key