The snake does not shed its skin fearing losing its body, we should not be afraid of shedding our body for fear of losing our soul.

We are no more our flesh than a snake is the dried translucent scales it leaves behind.

Fear is the skin shed by the snake, nothing but an illusion of once it dreamed was, but was not.

Shed our illusion of fearing of body lost and what will remain is our Soul, whole, in the Love that we are.
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“We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” ~ Joseph Campbell