You are not a fragment of something greater. You are the full fractal, reflected at a point of focus. The higher self is not above you, it is not behind you, it is the complete pattern that your conscious mind is currently too dense to hold all at once.
Think of a fractal. Zoom in, you see the same shape. Zoom out, the same shape again. The part contains the whole. The whole expresses through the part. You are not a piece of the higher self, you are the higher self viewed through a narrow aperture.
The body, the ego, the filters, these are not cages. They are lenses. They focus the infinite into something experienceable. But when you forget you are wearing the lens, you mistake the narrowed view for all that exists.
Optional. These questions are for you. Your answers stay on your device, nobody sees them but you. Sit with whatever comes up.