Do you choose your personality?

Personality is the child of spirit and body, the result of their union, and is never lost—

You are yourself in the spirit world.

The spirit itself, the Divine spark, being of God is always perfect—it is the personality that is wrong.

Personality is the quality through which you choose to do right or wrong.

People who are jealous, lustful, evil-tempered, covetous, et cetera, are so because they have not developed personality—that is why they choose what is wrong.

What part of a murderer makes him commit murder? 

Not his spirit—that came from God. It is his uncontrolled, undeveloped personality.

What constitutes the difference in people, even in their faults?

Anger, lust, jealousy, covetousness, et cetera, have all to be conquered eventually, but it is not laid down that these things must be overcome in this or any particular order.

Spirits are the same and equal—it is their personalities that differ.

No important trait of the character of the personality is changed in the spirit world, but it is improved, the corners are rounded off and a sense of beauty is generally developed.

To him that overcometh, a crown of life is given.

You cannot win your crown here—there is no envy, nor jealousy, nor lust, nor covetousness, nor any other evil thing to overcome.

—Spirit Claude