Run away! Run away! Seek! Search! Chase until he’s down in the gutter broken in body broken in mind broken in spirit and then in that vacuum the still small voice comes and says “I have never left you. I will never leave you. I will be with you until the end of the world.”
Francis Thompson
The Hound of Heaven

But, oh, we have to be so beaten before we can make room in our consciousness. We have to be so beaten, in such suffering that the mind can’t think anymore because we won’t stop it; but if we could accept the Master’s statement “The kingdom of God is within you”… it must announce itself to you, and it will always do it with the word “I”: I will never leave you. Fear not – I am with you. I will be with you until the end of the world. I am your bread, your wife, and your water. I am the resurrection of your life. I am your life eternal. And then you will find you have bridged over this entire span of mortality. You have put off mortality and have put on immortality the moment you no longer think about God and let yourself be aware of God – the moment you stop thinking, reasoning, planning, hoping, struggling, striving. Wait in patience until the voice speaks to you even if not an audible tones even if in suggestion, even if in feeling, even if in an interference or impression, as long as it comes to you from the depths of your withinness, God has announced itself to you and then God is on the field and then God is living your life and you repeat in the words of Paul ” I live, yet not I it is the presence of God within me that is living my life. I have surrendered this egotistical sense that believes it can know God it can think God that it can influence God, direct God, pray to God all of which is utter nonsense.
Joel S. Goldsmith
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