“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.”
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We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
