How To Get Self

A body and mind is a gift of unfathomable generosity.  By them, we are allowed the full measure of access to the experiences of life.  No one ever gives his or her self, selfhood, it is the ultimate gift given to us.  I have found that the only true way to experience being a human being is to constantly challenge your body and mind to live at their fullest, for it is not the body or mind that is you but those are only wonderful tools to being fully you.  You, that self, are a free entity, trapped seemingly in a body, but not the body.  It is that self that God yearns to guide, to commune with, to instruct, to be in relationship with and it is the body and mind that gives animation to that relationship which in turn sets you free from the enslavement to the body that we are currently, but not eternally, trapped in.  The body has access to the mind and continually tries to sway it to get its way.  However, the body is incapable of being lord over you or even it. The body is desperately self-serving and often seeks pleasure as its ultimate goal.  Often the self is given over to the body and lives out the lordship of the body.  However, the self is truly still in charge and must accept that abdication to the body as self-induced.  It is the ultimate slavery, slavery to the body that houses the ultimate gift, selfhood.  I have found nothing nor no one that can fully cast off the power of the body to sway the mind and enslave the self than Actually God Himself.  In that is salvation of the lower course that is part of The Salvation of the eternal course.  

Time Heals All Wounds.  A self-portrait
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