So the single most vital step on your journey is this:
learn to disidentify from your mind.
.
Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind,
the light of your consciousness grows stronger.
.
One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head,
as you would smile at the antics of a child.
This means that you no longer take the content of your mind
all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.