As an infant, we had a body which we exchanged for the body of a child; when we outgrew that body, we exchanged it for the body of youth; still later, that body gave way to the body of the adult, which contained within itself a new function—the power to reproduce itself.
That power was not in our infant body; it was not in our childhood body. But, as we advanced in years, we found that the power to become parents left us, because it was no longer a necessary function of our experience to be parents.
Then we were ready to go on to different modes of life. So we look back and we see ourselves give up our dolls and toys; and, then, marbles, baseball, football, and school books; and, finally, we leave behind parenthood.
Each time, as a function of our life drops away, we leave a part of our body behind and acquire a different concept of body and with it a different role in life.
You must come to the point where you understand your body and its function in your life; you must understand that you are not this body, and this body is not you:
This body is an instrument through which you are functioning. You are the life of the body; you are the soul of the body; you are the intelligence of the body.
You are that which uses the body as an instrument for your activities.
You are that which walks or writes or paints or buys or sells, but the body is the instrument for the performance of that activity, and it is always obedient to you.
(From Joel Goldsmith)
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