I have news. What's the word? Loss What is lost? All is lost. How can that be? How can you lose everything? It was never really ours. But we owned it! It was ours! Can you ever really own what you don't control? It is all in our control! That is an illusion. ~~You don't even keep your own body from getting old, from getting sick, from dying.~~ What control? It is not illusion - it is fact. You don't even control your own body. How can you say you control all the other? Of COURSE I control my body! What makes you think so? It does what I tell it to do; walk, run, dance, sit, stand... That is training - not control. It IS control! Then, can you stop your body from growing old, from getting sick, from dying? Of course not, but that is different. It is not different, it is the point. Even if I concede only partial control over my body - that is not the same. The same as what? My wealth, my possessions, my status, position, titles, relationships, influence. These things are even less under your control than your body - which you have conceded is not under your control. How can I go on living if I can become nothing? You are not your possessions or your wealth. You are not your status, positions, titles, relationships or influence. You never were! They are all that I have ever been. I am nothing without them now. Not true! You are now something greater than you have ever been before! What is that? You are free!