A Mysterious 'Engine'

You have heard the words “You are not your body, you are not not your  thoughts, you are not your feelings.” These may seem rather strange affirmations. They can make sense, in a way, but they are hard to really understand and accept. They make sense because, if you ask yourself about your usual identification with your body, you can clearly see that there is “someone” or “something” asking the question, i.e. a reality outside the body. The same happens if you wonder about the question itself. Questions take place in your mind, they are thoughts. And if you ask where these thoughts are coming from, it’s clear that they cannot come from the mind itself.  An eye cannot see itself because the motor of  the ‘seeing’ is the brain (not the eye itself). What is the ‘motor’ of your thoughts?