Luke 12:4 Meaning I Tell You

Fear reaches only as far as the body, and the body was never what the mind truly is. To dread what can harm the form is to have already accepted the ego's central lie, that a mind can be threatened from outside and that its life hangs on something that can be broken. But nothing that touches the body can reach the mind that knows it is not the body.

What looks like an enemy with power over you is only guilt seen in a mirror, given a face and made to seem to come from without. When the mind withdraws its fear from the form, there is nothing left for any enemy to do, for the thing it aimed at was never where the mind actually lives.

Body: the form the mind mistakes for itself, the fragile thing an enemy can reach but which the mind was never truly made of Them that kill the body: guilt seen in a mirror, given a face and made to seem an outside threat with power over a mind

Fear grips you only to the degree that you believe you are this body and nothing more. If form is all you are, then any threat to form is a threat to your very existence, and you will live in the shadow of that dread. This is the ego's deepest error, mistaking the perishable for the whole of you.

But there is that in you which no harm can reach, the formless awareness in which the body and its whole story appear. Those who can end the body have come to the very limit of their power there, because the life that you most deeply are was never the kind of thing that can be killed.

Fear loses its grip once a person sees that the body is only the temple of the holy ghost, a housing, not the true self that dwells in it. What can destroy the temple reaches no further, because the light living inside is untouched by whatever ends the outer structure.

The counsel is to stop dreading the powers that can harm the flesh, for their reach stops at the walls. In plain terms, a person is the awareness housed in the body, not the housing itself, so the worst that can be done to the housing leaves the one inside intact.

Body: the temple of the holy ghost, the outer housing that shelters the light but is not the true self