In Buddhism the inner voice is an illusion fronting the true experience of awareness that is your simple existence. It has no voice but is the entirety of you,

In Buddhism the inner voice is an illusion fronting the true experience of awareness that is your simple existence. It has no voice but is the entirety of you, so needs no voice. It is where the voice originates from, and the voice in fact distracts from being in a more true sense. I find this true for me. If I silence myself entirely but stay engaged and deeply aware, I can function in all ways - socially, intellectually, etc. Therefore the voice, feelings, etc, that drove me in most my life is neither sufficient nor necessary. I worried I’d lose my sense of self, or meaning, but instead found a quiet mind let myself as it is in the present emerge and my experience was more profound. I lost my rumination, anxiety, and depression, and gained control over my voice and feelings as auxiliary tools to my awareness rather than defining my life. So, I agree entirely and thousands of years of Buddhist experience does too :-) maybe those without the voice are closer to themself than those with?