What can be done to avoid being seared with the mark that burns within us ...penetrating that which protects our fragile exterior, while getting under our skin, and destroying the layers of our actual inner being? We need our skin ...it is what allows us to feel. And what allows us to feel is unquestionably one of the greatest things going for us. But what we feel ultimately, is not with our senses, but is rather a result of what lies beneath.