What you perceive as a dense physical structure called the body,
which is subject to disease, old age, and death, is not ultimately real
— is not you. It is a misperception of your essential reality that is
beyond birth and death, and is due to the limitations of your mind,
which, having lost touch with Being, creates the body as evidence of
its illusory belief in separation and to justify its state of fear. But do
not turn away from the body, for within that symbol of impermanence,
limitation, and death that you perceive as the illusory creation of your
mind is concealed the splendor of your essential and immortal reality.
Do not turn your attention elsewhere in your search for the Truth, for
it is nowhere else to be found but within your body.
Do not fight against the body, for in doing so you are fighting against
your own reality. You are your body. The body that you can see and
touch is only a thin illusory veil. Underneath it lies the invisible inner
body, the doorway into Being, into Life Unmanifested. Through the
inner body, you are inseparably connected to this unmanifested One
Life — birthless, deathless, eternally present. Through the inner body,
you are forever one with God.