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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 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.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
| About:
Self awareness,
Soul
| Keywords:
cover, covering, coverings, depths, forty, go into, hides, ox, skins, thick, thick skin, thirty
«But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.»
«Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.»
«For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.»
«For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.»
«Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? / Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg? / The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.»
«Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.»
«An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ant, doze, dozing, move, on the move, ox, The Ants, The Move