I am going to try to tell you something that if you are at all serious about being reborn, you will have to understand . . .<\/p>\n
First, there really exists such a thing as being reborn, but rebirth is a rare thing. It isn\u2019t rare because of its difficulty. It\u2019s rare because human beings are afraid of losing the self that must be forsaken if they\u2019re to be reborn.<\/p>\n
The self that must be forsaken to be reborn is the self that knows itself by everything it thinks about. It thinks about what people think about. It thinks about what people do. It thinks about why people don\u2019t do what they do or don\u2019t do. In short, it is the self that knows itself by everything that it is not or that it dreams itself to be like.<\/p>\n
That self is an individual self. It is a self created from each individual reflection in which it sees itself. That self is not real. It belongs to personality. It belongs to passing time. It belongs to everything ultimately called good and evil.<\/p>\n
There is inside of you another self. It\u2019s not your self, and yet it\u2019s closer to your self than anything you\u2019ll ever know. It is your being, but it doesn\u2019t belong to you. It is vested in a Great Being \u2013 call it what you will.<\/p>\n
In order to be reborn, a man or woman must face the gradual disappearance of themselves from their own life — the gradual realization that it doesn\u2019t matter a bit what any other human being on the earth does as long as they are deriving their sense of self from the judgment and consideration of that human being.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s what you fear. You don\u2019t know how much you depend upon having others around you — to either love or to condemn — to provide you with your individual sense of value and self. All of that has to go. Not \u201cgo\u201d because it means something good is going, but \u201cgo\u201d because it means something limited has to leave before what is unlimited can come in and take its place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am going to try to tell you something that if you are at all serious about being reborn, you will have to understand . . . First, there really exists such a thing as being reborn, but rebirth is a rare thing. It isn\u2019t rare because of its difficulty. It\u2019s rare because human beings…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[672,2],"tags":[1576,535,1579,846,533,532,669,1577,1578],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-changetransformation","category-letting-go","tag-being-reborn","tag-easter","tag-eternal-life","tag-limitations","tag-rebirth","tag-resurrection","tag-salvation","tag-sense-of-self","tag-unlimited"],"yoast_head":"\n