You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.
All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.
The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.
How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.
Consciousness is an attribute while awareness is not; one can be aware of being conscious, but not conscious of awareness. God is the totality of consciousness, but awareness is beyond all--being as well as not-being.
The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.