From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
Ram DassWho you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.
Ram DassWhat the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.
Ram Dass