Although most of the time the center of our attention is taken up by something else, God's Spirit is present at the edges of consciousness, enveloping us and everything else of which we are aware. This awareness of God varies in intensity, and we can learn to increase the intensity by a simple shift of attention, just as we can glance up from a piece of work for an instant to notice something in our surroundings of which previously we were only vaguely aware.
— Diogenes Allen, Spiritual Theology