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what direction you must take, how long you should live; no it is
just a suit of clothes. To your Spirit your body is just a suit of
clothes and like a suit you chose it for a particular purpose. You
know that you would not wear a working suit into an
environment that was not suited to it. As with clothes in a physical
sense, so it is with your body in a spiritual sense. You are aware in
the physical way that the suit must be cared for so that it will be
able to serve its function, you maintain it, and so too with your
body you must also maintain it. The Spirit must not let the body
rule it and dictate what is best for it; the body is of the physical
world and does not have any knowledge of the spiritual world. To
the body the world it is in is the real world, it is the Spirit that
realises differently. As a spiritual being you too must realise your
real world is the Spirit world and that the body is in a way your
passport to the various experiences that you need for the
advancement of your understanding of your reality.

You are aware of the times while you are in the earth
environment that you feel a need to step back from the task you
are performing so that you may have a clearer perspective of the
work you are engaged in. This exercise is also very valuable to
your Spirit, meditation gives you this opportunity. When you
meditate and get into that relaxed state allow your Spirit the
facility to step from the body in order to survey the work in hand,
and from a new perspective be better able to see its progress
along life's path. Realising that the Spirit has this facility, and if
one makes this conscious effort, then one must also accept that
which they see as being the truth, for one, if genuinely seeking the
truth, must surely do so in a true manner, a spiritual manner, for