I appreciate the saying, “I’m a human being, not a human doing.” I think we usually use it to mean that we are more than what we do, or that we need time to rest and “be.”

But on its face, the statement is false and, at root, gnostic. (But I repeat myself.)

We are what we choose to do with these bodies, as much as what we are in our in our inner-life. So work, exercise, eating, sex, play — the physical things, or lack thereof — make us who we are as much as thoughts, prayers, hopes, dreams and intentions.