"Finding God" means much more than just abandoning all things that are not God, and emptying oneself of images and desires.
If you succeed in emptying your mind of every thought and every desire you may indeed withdraw into the center of yourself and concentrate everything within you upon the imaginary point where your life springs out of God; yet you will not really find God. No natural exercise can bring you into vital contact with him. Unless he utters Himself in you, speaks his own name in the center of your soul, you will no more know him than a stone knows the ground upon which it rests in its inertia....
Our discovery of God is, in a way, God's discovery of us. We cannot go to heaven to find Him because we have no way of knowing where heaven is or what it is. He comes down from heaven and finds us...We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
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