Friend: Ultimately, is it about direct experience?
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Ultimately, it is about the dissolution of ignorance, awakening to truth. 
Awakening to truth is being truth. Self knowing that establishes you as your true nature, which is eternal, universal and impersonal. 
Ending the unhappy impression of separation as well as the belief and feeling of being a mortal body mind. 
The contemplation of your direct experience encourages you to step out of your mind and turn your attention to whatever it is that is real in your experience, which is awareness/consciousness. 
That is a step in the right direction. A good expedient means.