Are you a Strong Man or Woman?

How Exactly Do You Know?

A society becomes whatever it celebrates.

If a society celebrates hate, hatred becomes chronic, ubiquitous, cancerous. If a society celebrates just the self, people stop caring for others, everyone turns inward, everyone assumes their reservoirs of strength are sufficient for seeing them through all of the future challenges of life.

One thing we all can agree on as men or women is, ‘we are not our bodies’. Our bodies are the casings through which we interact with the physical world. If we were our bodies, upon death our bodies would vanish into nothingness, or we would experience instantaneous decay. That our bodies remain and lose warmth, resulting in coldness of death as part evidence for death is factual evidence for the fact that ‘we are not our bodies’.

Call our non-corporeal self spirit, soul, heart, mind whatever, what really is important is, there exists a non-corporeal reality to our physical existence. An important characteristic of this non-corporeal reality is our unwillingness to accept our environment as is; always we seek to impact our environment, suit it to our tastes, our preferences.

Whether you believe in the Biblical account of creation or not, included in the story is a lesson for anyone who believes…