We tend to make things complicated, even for enlightenment.
I have come to see more and more clearly that things are actually very simple: There is only “You” and your personality self—the observer and the observed. And the entity that observes is You. That is all.

The personality self is your familiar self. It encompasses what you generally perceive as “you”: your body, emotions, thoughts, feelings, beliefs, opinions, etc. and the whole spectrum of your experiences— happiness, difficulties, worrying, hope…, anything and everything that arises from your physical, emotional, and mental construct. While these aspects feel undeniably real, they are not You. They are your personality self.

On the opposite end, there is an entity that observes all these activities of personality self. This entity, the observer, is You.

In spiritual community it is often said that there are two selves within you: your lower self, and the higher or true divine self. The trouble with this description is that upon hearing it, you will likely to attempt to identify these two separate selves within you, and you will inevitably fail. While you might find your lower self, the “true self” eludes discovery because the very “you” attempting to locate the true self is the true self itself. You can’t observe the “true self” since it is the one doing the observing.

Most people only know their personality self. This is simply because nobody taught you how to recognize the true self and what you really are. You are the true self as you are, but simply you have not realized and identified yourself as the true self yet.

You are aware that you are aware. This awareness is an entity, and it is you. This unnamable existence, the sense of “I exist”, that awareness, is you.