Frank Wanderer said this quote

First we have to understand that we are not the mind! We are identical with neither its bright, nor its dark side!

~ Frank Wanderer

The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand what is beyond mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the mental image of enlightenment, seeking, happiness etc.

~ Frank Wanderer

Reaching beyond ourselves, exceeding our mind is not a simple thing. It is, in fact, impossible–one half of the Ego is trying to exceed the other.

~ Frank Wanderer

In most people, the term “consciousness” identifies with that socially conditioned Ego. At a number of people this identification is so powerful that they are unaware that their life is governed by a socially conditioned mind.

~ Frank Wanderer