There are many Realizations the mind comes across on this path to attaining inner peace or Enlightenment!

For me, it went like this (although not linear):

Birth… experiencing the world through body & sense perceptions… fully in the present moment…

Unconsciously learning and navigating the rules of the world… using the heart, parents, family, peers & society as guides… all the while being conditioned… The ego is being formed.

I, mostly unconsciously, start identifying myself with a variety of things, depending upon my past Conditioning… This keeps me grounded… But over time, as I start questioning & examining these identities, I realize many of these are false and many reveal themselves as varying levels of Attachments in my ego.

Due to confusing egoic Attachments, I periodically experience life with feelings of great openness (or Mania)… while other times, with feelings of great closedness (or Depression).

Although extremely uncomfortable, I come out each time learning something new from the intense experiences.

From time to time, the emotional Attachments showing up from swinging between the two different & opposite states of being settles down & I find some clarity…

It finally becomes clear that I’m being driven by my Unconscious… In my Unconscious… through others judging me & me in turn, judging others… I ever really judge myself… shame myself… blame myself… whereas I am also the one to praise myself, bless myself or uplift myself but through others!

It's the “I am You, You are Me” moment! It was me who was judging everything (including myself) all along!

I am infinitely both everything & nothing in life, simultaneously, but perfectly still