Temple of God

(From Joel Goldsmith)

“Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God, know ye not that your body is the Temple of God?”

Feed this into your mind morning noon and night, and see what happens to you in your relationship with other people in this world, and their relationship with you.
Now what is the use of playing around with those outworn theological misconceptions—when you have a direct divinely inspired piece of Scripture to tell you that “you are the Temple of God.” And this must be so if “the Kingdom of God is within you” then you are the Temple—in which that God functions—a temple not made with hands!
Ah, here is the mystery, people look at themselves in the mirror, and they see what seems to be a corporeal body—and, they immediately identify this with themselves. Whereas, this body is not you, this body is yours!

You are incorporeal and spiritual; you are not in this body; you never have been inside this body; you never have looked out from within this body.

( A Course in Miracles)
In this world, not even the body is perceived as whole. Its purpose is seen as fragmented into many functions with little or no relationship to each other, so that it appears to be ruled by chaos.
Guided by the ego, it is. Guided by the Holy Spirit, it is not. It becomes a means by which the part of the mind you tried to separate from spirit can reach beyond its distortions and return to spirit.

The ego's temple thus becomes the temple of the Holy Spirit, where devotion to Him replaces devotion to the ego. In this sense the body does become a temple to God; His Voice abides in it by directing the use to which it is put.