Ibn Arabi: “To know God is not an easy matter, until one becomes a knower of one’s self.” (1)
Al-Ghazzali: “He who knows himself knows God.” (2)
The illusory, apparently-individuated entity known as the “Self” is like a Babushka doll.
Whatever its original form might have been, that’s the largest of the dolls. And we in Fourth Dimensionality are the smallest.
But, I believe, they’re nested inside of each other in a non-physical way which I couldn’t possibly describe or understand.
We’re out here in the cold...