Every Experience on the Physical Plane Expands Your Essence

Just as your essence is an expansion of the Tao (highest plane of spiritual existence), your personality is an expansion of your essence.

We are paradoxes; our bodies, our wholeness is the complete vehicle that we were given at birth, yet our essence is constantly growing, learning and expanding so we are never truly 'whole'.

The essence becomes bored when there is little growth occurring. Sometimes the essence will generate a traumatic event to jar the personality loose, because that is the only way to get through. On Earth today, people insist on growing through pain, however, it feels much better to grow through joy than pain.

Essence and personality are two aspects of you. Neither should dominate. If you are “blissed out” on your essence to the point where you are not experiencing your personality, you may as well go back to the astral plane. But if you are experiencing only your personality, you have forgotten what the game is about. Your conscious awareness, if properly placed, is not fully at the level of personality, yet not fully at the level of essence. It partakes of both.