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A human being has so many skins inside,
covering the depths of the heart.
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We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves!
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Why, thirty or forty skins or hides,
as thick and hard as an ox’s or a bear’s,
cover the soul.
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Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
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~ Meister Eckhart
thanks to Blue Mountain Center of Meditation
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