"Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself.
And who needs it?" Socrates leaned back into his chair. The mind - your ego, personal beliefs, history, and identity - is all that ends at death.
The body is in Consciousness never born never dies only changes. You have been immortal since before you were born and will be long after the body dissolves. Immortality is Already yours, but not in the same way you imagined or hope for. When you relax mindless into the body, you are happy and content and free, sensing no separation. That is what your visions revealed to you. You are the body, but you are everything else, too. And you Are that Consciousness - no the phantom mind that troubles you so. Consciousness is not In the body the body is In Consciousness. "That's exactly what it is, Dan - a thought - no more real than the shadow of a shadow. And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find art's nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once more the clasps and kisses of the past, to bring life's morning back, to see again the forms and faces of the dead, to paint fair pictures for the coming years, to forget all Gods, their promises and threats, to feel within your veins life's joyous stream and hear the martial music, the rhythmic beating of your fearless heart. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. “Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
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