Once you’ve had enough practice at meditation, staying Present, and seeing through thoughts so that you know that you are NOT thoughts, it’s time to explore what you really are. If, in meditation, you’ve reached the ability to experience Silence and Stillness, you can ‘sit’ in that awareness for a good length of time.
If you can sit in meditation for a significant time, you can get to the heart of what awakening is about. As you have begun experiencing your deepest identity as the Mystery or Consciousness or Awareness or Emptiness or Christ Consciousness or Holy Spirit (to name a few of the names various traditions use) see if you can explore the boundaries of that identity.
Does Awareness (to use one name for sake of brevity) have any sense of time at all? In your inner Being is there any sense of age? When you look for the spatial boundaries of Awareness can you feel them? Are there any Boundaries to Awareness? Is there some felt place where Awareness ends and no longer exists?
My own experiential answer to these questions is that the Awareness within has no sense of time so it’s Eternal or Immortal. It has no sense of SPACE or spatial limitations and so it is unending. Awareness can be felt to transcend time and space; you can know by your own ‘experience’ that this is the Truth. The Awareness within you and the Awareness ‘outside of’ you is the SAME AWARENESS. It is the Transcendent Awareness. In the Mandukya Upanishad of the Hindu tradition the Sanskrit uses the words “Ayam Atman Brahman” to summarize the finding (loosely translated) that “this individual Awareness IS the Divine Awareness” in other words they are one and the same. Or, for my Buddhist friends “this internal Emptiness is THE EMPTINESS” that the Buddha discovered.
Sitting deeply in meditation, you can feel, sense, and intuit the Truth which is that there is only One Awareness and you are part of it. So is everything and everyone else. Also, you’ll find it true that even if you lose touch with the feeling/sensing/intuiting of Awareness (usually due to some physical and emotional stress), it doesn’t go anywhere. You are Always That Awareness, which is in a mysterious way what is registering your feeling, sensing and intuiting of Itself. This is The Mystery that We Are.