meet yourself in your inner nakedness

"The first task of the human being is to enter within, and himself to encounter himself.
If anyone has not met himself, how could he meet God? You do not meet
yourself apart from God. You do not meet God apart from yourself.

So long as you have not met yourself, in your inner nakedness - a
nakedness still more shocking than your outward nakedness - you live
in a world of your own making, of your own imagination, of your
'mind'.

Yourself, the world and God are a dream that you are dreaming, and not
reality. Anyone who has not seen himself naked, will think that
everyone has come into the world wearing pants and a pair of socks.
The God adored by one who has not met himself in the nude is an idol.
The neighbour approached by one who has not yet met himself is a
projection of his outward self, ahamkaric (egocentric)."

(Swami Abhishiktananda: Ascent to the Depth of the Heart: the Spiritual Diary, entry Dez. 4 , 1953)

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