According to Xian wisdom tradition, Yeshua was once asked, "What do I have to do to be freed from the prison I have unwittingly wasted my life constucting around myself?"
Allegedly. Yeshua replied, "You have to reinvent youself, man."
He was then asked a followup question. "How can a person morally do that, without feeling like a con artist? People know me. They know my whole crazy past. They'll either ridicule me, call me a phoney, or both. There's no way to undo my whole bleeding life history."
"You were born helpless and hopeless. Everyone and everything was foreign to you. Nothing made sense. You came out of your mother without a users guide or a souvenir program. So while you've grown, others have attempted to set you straight--according to their own jaundiced misunderstandings, and general lack of the awareness of what their own true purpose is--this side of the personal hell of a tainted persona.
"But you asked the question, and I'm obligated by a passionate commitment for speaking truth to every person who inquires about my opinion on shit. But dig this. Unless you seek the true you, by abandoning the life created by the old screwed-up you--unless you reach deep inside and reinvent your "self" using the divine, genetic blueprint of the joy-filled, beautiful and brilliant creature you really are, in that which some folks call a "soul"--you will remain a zombie for your whole, miserable life."
Go in Peace and be most Joyfully Blessed,
Charles