What makes you think you own your life?

Whenever I hear people say, 'it is my life', I often ask, is it true? Do you own your life?  What part did you play in bringing ‘your’ life to be? Can you tell how long you intend to live ‘your’ life for? Do you really think ‘your’ life is ‘yours’ and that you are free to do whatever you like with it?  

We often confuse life with the body that hosts it.

Life is spirit. It is not yours because it has no body. The spirit is invisible. It is untouchable.  It is intangible. The spirit is the universal force energy that gives life to living things. This means that even though you cannot see it, hold it, smell it, taste it or even feel it, yet it is an extremely powerful natural force.

You can only perceive life when you live at the highest level of consciousness. This means thinking at the deepest level. In other words, you become aware of what is inside 'you' by having regular conversations with the 'you' inside.  This is where life resides. It is inside all living things including the human body, which I have chosen to call the 'corpse.'

Have you ever thought about the other lives that have been composed from decomposed corpses? This means that you cannot control life. You cannot kill life. You cannot even harm it. Life is forever living.

Life can flow effortlessly in and out of the host object. This means that life can step out of one host object and move on to live in another host object. It has no boundary. It has no barrier. It has no obstacle to prevent it from doing its will. How can you therefore say that you own something that which you do not control?

I once heard someone saying to me that he was fed up with living and wanted to kill himself. He said he wanted to take his own life. I told him it's impossible to take something he cannot see or touch. I told him that life lives forever. I told him that all he could do was to harm his body, let out life and let in corpse. I also told him that before he could achieve that, his body must experience pain. I told him that life, which is the spirit in the body, does not experience pain or pleasure. Only the body does, through the conscious or subconscious use of the mind.
 
Learning to understand the relationship between your body (corpse), your spirit (life) and your mind (consciousness) is crucial to understanding the true meaning of life and your authentic relationship with your Source of Be-ing.

The spirit gives life to, and takes life from, the body. Do you still think you own your life?