the key difference

between you and your life

is that you should never take yourself seriously,

while always honoring the life you've been given.

Never confuse the two,

or else, to extremes,

you'll either become the rigid pricks passionate about your own righteousness,

or the stupid hedonistic earthly wannabe gods.

Both of them, turnoffs for genuine company.

First, your own

and then of the people around you.

I've transitioned through both and I can witness them being candidates for personal and social wretchedness.

"You" is a construct, a concept, an idea, hence nothing about it is to be taken seriously. It's changeable, it's dynamic, it's separateness, it's prone to will or whims. It's a mere reflection of a point of view.

"You" as a centerpiece invites seeing ourselves as human beings, at best, having a spiritual experience.

"Life in you," on the other hand, is a-live, is continuous, is forever unchangeable and stable, is non-resistant, is oneness, is grace in action. Everything about it is what makes our human experience holy.

"Life in you" as a centerpiece sees us as spiritual beings having a human experience.