At no time are you imprisoned within the body. At no time – at no time – are you limited to the appearance that you have come to believe is you – no matter how deep the pain, no matter how certain you have been, what you call your common sense, telling you that,

I am here. I am this body.
This moment is happening. This is all there is.

Regardless of all of that, the Truth is not shaken. You are not the mere appearance of the body-mind that you have called the “self.”

Excerpt The Way of Transformation, lesson 1