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Quote by Meister Eckhart
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we dont know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an oxs or bears, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. – Meister Eckhart

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge. – Meister Eckhart

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. – Meister Eckhart

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