According to Jewish mystic teaching, God's presence, the Shechinah ("indwelling"), is everywhere, and there is no place where God is not present. One of the main goals of Jewish mystics is to go beyond mere belief and observance to attain spiritual experience, acting and meditating so as to achieve d'vekut, a constant loving awareness of the Divine Presence. That is the essence of mysticism — directly knowing God.
— Yitzhak Buxbaum, Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy