‘Christ died for our sins’ is an example of a belief that probably is not true (we have no way of actually proving it), but if you are a Christian, then you take it on faith. The statement that ‘You are not your thoughts,’ however, is a belief that is true.
After all, you can observe your thoughts, even the ‘I’ and ‘me’ thoughts, and watch them come and go, yet you as an aware, conscious being—the watcher or observer of your ever-changing thoughts—are always here.
So, your thoughts may be true, like telling a story about what you did during the past hour, or they may be false, imagined, or unverifiable (like ‘Christ died for our sins’), but they are not real. After all, they come and go, arise and disappear, and what is real is always here.
You are real, in other words: you as an aware, conscious being. That, in a nutshell, is the very essence of ‘self’-realization.
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