I can relate to 'we are our own inteligent creation' as we are.... no-one made us the way we are its down to our own choices be it ,right or wrong.
At some time in life we have all made a choice in what we wanted to be,I doubt whether what you wanted to be when you were young was what you ended up being.
I.E. (excuse the analogy, it was an interesting link)
So you make a descision on what you want to be,the being that you are going to create( which is 'yourself'), the physicality that you were/are gets in the way of the 'entity' which you want to be...
You want to be a policeman (1young)
but you end up getting a criminal record,but still want to be policeman(2teenager),
you can't become a policeman(3adult)(4middle aged)(5old)
you then struggle to find a job in the area you wanted to be in because of 2,even though what happened in 2 could have been anything it becomes a stagnant perception of who you are which alters or hinders the 'being which you seek to become' so you become a community worker who gets bored and like throwing punches when pissed, you are the not the direct image of what you aimed at creating,because of what you were...
DANG IT,that analogy doesn't explain what i mean properly....
The moment you make the descisison of what you want to be,
what you are will get in the way,
but until you can give up who you were,
you will not able to become what you want,
so the realisation of this will be the letting go,
and the embracing/becoming of who you are(what you wanted)
but the stagnancy of who you were can effect the outcome,and you may end up nothing more than an echo of what you wanted to be...
It was good but it all depends on interpretation, I suppose