Personality is constructed from belief, perspective and experience. Part of it is passed on through the potentiation of our seed and becomes instinct; part of it is developed through managing day to day life. It is the difference between doing and not doing something in certain contexts and comes to be accentuated or diminished by the fruit of those actions. In the afterlife, personality becomes the guiding principle for what we enjoy about Heaven or what we hate about Hell.
Without personality we would evolve into something completely other than what we are. It is how we access our memories, define our thoughts, characterize our words, heighten our perceptions. It is in other words, the key to our whole being. It anchors our hopes and our dreams, gives us vision and gives us insight.
Personality is the truth about ourselves that does not change. We find it when we sleep, when we awake, when we work and when we are tired again. It is the preference we have for certain foods, certain places, certain people, certain modes of transport. It is the path we take through life, the highs, the lows, the indifferent moments we don't know what to do with.
Every phase of your personality is given to you at birth, every angle of your personality is defined by you as a consequence of the body you inherit. You can change how you look at its seed, you can change how you interpret its outgrowth, you can change how you focus on different aspects of it at different phases, but you can't change it for something that has nothing to do with what it was. You are bound by how you encounter it, how you react to it, how you support it, how you extend it.
Thinking you can waste it, thinking you can exchange it, thinking you can pervert it, thinking you can undevelop it, all of these things are unfaithful examples of not using a talent for that which it was intended. It is God's intention that you develop your personality, that you invest it, that you convert it, that you add to it. Your ability to alter what you see as having potential through belief, perspective and experience is what will shape it, what will cause it to serve the purposes God has intended.
Fundamentally, it is mysterious. It has worked where no one expected it to, it has changed where no one thought it would change, it has added to where no one thought there would be an addition, it has developed where no one thought anything would develop. It is to be expected before it makes sense to expect it, it is to be remembered, when there seems to be no reason to remember it, it fills our sense of purpose when our sense of purpose is beyond us, it brings us back to earth, when it seems like we will be forever high on life.
Thank you for the opportunity to think about this.
