Analysis of What is the Source of Our Humanity?

A revelation.
A psychological truth.
Take it — or leave it.
This may be hard to swallow.
You are more than your body.

The skin as body.
Does not suffice for psyche.
Which is much deeper.
We elevate the body.
As if it were our own soul.

You are not your skin.
And you are not your body.
Those are surfaces.
That clothe your true Inner Self.
The Self that’s made of spirit.

Much more than matter.
Much more than epidermis.
You are a spirit.
Beyond your physical self.
At the core of your being.

The unborn offspring.
Eight weeks after conception.
We call a foetus.
Has a developing mind.
That’s truly made of spirit.

The child as foetus.
A soul within a body.
Is much more than flesh.
Is also made of spirit.
A living soul — with heartbeat.

Flesh has beginning.
Like all things that are matter.
And flesh has ending.
But spirit has no ending.
Enduring beyond matter.

We are not mere flesh.
Made of ashes and of dust.
We are a spirit.
That governs all our thinking.
Both conscious and unconscious.

Governing our flesh.
The spirit reigns supreme.
It is our psyche.
Not the body — with ego.
But the spirit — our center.

The body will rot.
For that is its destiny.
Beyond our control.
But spirit is enduring.
Source of our humanity.