# Don't Be Trapped By Your Body

> But if you shut your soul up in the body and abase it and say,
> 'I understand nothing, I can do nothing; I fear the sea, I cannot
> go up to heaven; I do not know what I was, I do not know what I
> will be,' then what have you to do with god? While you are evil
> and a lover of the body, you can understand none of the things
> that are beautiful and good.
>
> Corpus Hermeticum XI, 21



If you have a disability, should the disability define yourself?



Then how about these:

If your skin color is black.
If you are male and your height is 150cm.
Or even, if you were an athlete and you have lost your legs by an
accident.
&c.



NONE OF THESE MATTERS.

Don't be trapped by a cross named your body. Of course no hedonism,
but having an inferiority complex about your body is EQUALLY evil.
Those are the same obsession with your body.

Don't do self-pity too. YOUR DISABILITY SHOULD NOT DEFINE YOURSELF.
If you have lost your legs, run with artificial legs. Or even with
a wheel chair. Those are challenges. Surpassing them makes people
heroic and noble.