There are many books that tell us how to find God. But the truth is that God is not lost or hiding. In fact, it is the actual, continuous, omnipresence of God that is so hard for the human mind to fathom.
We always look in the wrong direction: toward someplace else, toward something mysterious and far away. We try to recapture something that we believe we had years ago in childhood or something that we read about in spiritual books. We try to improve our hunting skills so that we can capture an elusive God, a God who does not want to be found.
But God is not missing or elusive or invisible. It is we who need to make ourselves ready to receive God, who is always knocking at the door to our hearts, whose Voice is always speaking, whose Heart makes our hearts beat, and whose Breath is the world.
"Receive God." We are the only thing that stands in the way of this ultimate action, this greatest desire, this end point that is also our beginning.
— Jason Shulman, The Instruction Manual for Receiving God