“It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know who we are.”

–St. Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle

(with backing vocals by St. Augustine: “I myself comprehend not all the thing that I am”; and Friedrich Nietzsche: “We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers, we ourselves, to ourselves, and there is a good reason for this. We have never looked for ourselves, — so how are we ever supposed to find ourselves?”)