Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?

Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives (ed. Dan Millman, 2015) - ISBN: 9780982428504