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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. |
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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we do not 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.- Meister Eckhart
If you are living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
In this country, do not forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
