To be aware of the mind is being a witness of the mind. As the witnessing grows stronger, you already start feeling yourself beyond the mind. Slowly, slowly the distance grows. Your witness reaches to a sunlit peak and the mind is left in the dark valleys, far away. You can still hear the echoes, but they don’t affect you at all. You are beyond their reach.
-Osho, "Bodhidharma: The Greatest Zen Master, #14"