You are not the conscious mind

Did you know...
...that you are not the conscious mind? The conscious mind is just a part, the part of the mind you are identified with, the thinking part. It is like a very small garden in the middle of an enormous jungle. You’ve cleared some ground, planted some fruits, and everything seems fine; calm and ordered. Only, the jungle is all around—uncontrollable, unruly, vast and dark, unknown. At any moment it can enter and eat up the garden. The jungle is the unconscious part of the mind, the larger, the stronger part, but the part you’ve denied light, ignored, neglected. And the conscious mind is constantly afraid of the unconscious, always in fight with it. However, it is the unconscious mind that wins every single battle. They are both you, but you’ve split yourself in two. A small part of your being you have identified as your self and the rest became alien to you.