God said:
Your body is like a suitcase or backpack. You carry it around. Your body has assorted compartments and passages.
The real you is not physical, and the real you never withdraws no matter what your body and mind may carry on about. We can say that your body totes you around and contains you, your spine like a clothes rack to hang parts of your life on. It may be more true to say that your body is a hanger-on, and the soul of you carries the body around. The body has its good uses, yet your body isn’t quite the star it likes to think it is.
There is a calm part of you, a serene part, an acknowledgeable part of you. We can call this the heart of you, the essence of you, the soul of you. It is the height and breadth and extent of you. Your soul travels independently of your physical body. Your physical body is more like a shadow that follows you even as your body is very concrete and very definite and seems to lead the band, whereas your soul, subtle as it is, is the true leader and the infinite realization of you. Your soul is intimate with you while the body keeps running off somewhere.