Finally, what I have said about the dog s obedience applies also to my union with my body ; my body is only properly mine to the degree to which I am able to control it. But here, too, there is a limit, an inner limit ; if as a consequence of some serious illness, I lose all control of my body, it tends to cease to be my body, for the very profound reason that, as we say in the common idiom, I am no longer myself. But at the other extreme, pos sibly as a yogi I also cease to be myself,...., whereas in the mean position which is that of what we call normal life, such control is always partial, always threatened to some degree.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Finally, what I have said about the dog s obedience applies also to my union with my body ; my body is only properly mine to the degree to which I am able to control it. But here, too, there is a limit, an inner limit ; if as a consequence of some serious illness, I lose all control of my body, it tends to cease to be my body, for the very profound reason that, as we say in the common idiom, I am no longer myself. But at the other extreme, pos sibly as a yogi I also cease to be myself,...., whereas in the mean position which is that of what we call normal life, such control is always partial, always threatened to some degree." in the context of "GABRIEL MARCEL in THE MYSTERY OF BEING Page 96 https://archive.org/stream/themysteryofbein00marcuoft/themysteryofbein00marcuoft_djvu.txt " to mean that wisdom is timeless.