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.
The way out of the mind is to become aware of the mind and its mechanism, memory, imagination, thoughts, desires, fantasies. The traffic is there, continuously going on. You have just to stand by the side and watch whatsoever is passing, with no judgment, with no evaluation. Just a silent mirror reflecting whatsoever is passing by... without any commentary, just watching.
In the beginning it seems difficult because our habit is of continuously commenting. But just a little patience, sitting silently, doing nothing, just watching - it comes. And when it comes it opens a totally new dimension.
Withdraw your energy from the past. Don't waste your time in memories. What is gone is gone. Say goodbye to it and close the chapter.
What has not come yet has not come yet. Don't unnecessarily waste your time and energy in imagination, because no imagination is ever fulfilled. It is because of this that the proverb exists in every language: "Man proposes, and God disposes" because you imagine a certain thing in the future, and it is never so.
Withdrawing yourself from past and future, you will become a tremendously intense energy, focused in the present, concentrated in the present like an arrow.
Each moment being aware, alert, watchful, in the herenow, is the way not to miss the train. Every experience needs your presence here, this moment.
And this is a simple secret, but it opens the doors of existence, of all the mysteries, of all that is worth knowing, worth tasting, worth feeling, worth being.
Mind has only one capacity, and that is to dream.
Dreaming is your continuity,
and unless this continuity is broken you cannot know what truth is.
The question is not whether truth is very far away or near,
the question is whether the mind is in a dream or not.