"Awareness watches the sensations that occur with the natural coming and going of the breath.
Awareness penetrates the subtle sensations that accompany each breath.
When we bring attention to the level of sensation, we are not so entangled in the verbal level where all the voices of thought hold sway, usually lost in the "internal dialogue."
The internal dialogue is always commenting and judging and planning.
It contains a lot of thoughts of self, a lot of self-consciousness.
It blocks the light of our natural wisdom; it limits our seeing who we are; it makes a lot of noise and attracts our attention to a fraction of the reality in which we exist.
When the awareness is one, as we penetrate the flow; the flow is the answer.
The asking of the question is itself the answer. 'When we ask, "Who am I?"
who we are is the processes asking the question 'When awareness penetrates a bit deeper, we discover that we've invested the thinking mind with a reality which it doesn't independently possess, an absolute reality, not understanding that it is a relative part of something much greater.