Extract from Tommy Wong's book, "Wisdom on How to Live Life"

Tom: Are there other benefits by living as souls?

Guru: Plenty.

Tom: What are they?

Guru: If we believe we are souls, we can then leave one body and subsequently take up another. We may consider bodies are like clothes which we wear one for one day, and then change to another on another day.

Tom: Reincarnation.

Guru: Correct and there is a huge benefit in this belief.

Tom: What’s that?

Guru: We’re not attached to our bodies.

Tom: We are souls and not bodies.

Guru: By being detached from the body, we gain enormous power.

Tom: What power?

Guru: By living as the soul and having a body, we always have the option of leaving the body.

Tom: So?

Guru: Since we’ve the power to leave the body, it also means that if we decide to stay with the body, it’s our own choice.

Tom: We’re empowered to leave or to stay.

Guru: It means that whatever situation we’re in, we choose to be there.

Tom: Right on.

Guru: It means that nobody in the entire universe can make us do what we don’t want.

Tom: We don’t have to do what we don’t want.

Guru: Since everything we do is our own choosing, we become masters of life.

Tommy Wong

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