PENETRATE THINGS TO FIND GOD THERE

To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind. -- Meister Eckhart

And there it is. The answer to my question to my Father regarding my silence in the face of a tormentor...one must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.

With JoB, I realized my inner connection...I felt my "click-click." Having received my inner assurance that silence is indeed golden, my mistake was turning it into a self-determined objective. So that, with Gertrude, I could just as well have glued my lips shut and gotten the results I got...mouth shut, mind running amok. And, who's kidding whom? That is a resentment birthed, bred and looking for a fight.  

I know without a doubt that my answers are within, are spiritual in nature, and cannot be accessed intellectually...aided but not accessed. I have not tried to "figure it out," yet here comes my direction in the daily Easwaran reader (meaning I have read Eckhart's quote every March 14 since 1994) that clarifies, satisfies, rectifies and holds me accountable...and all but bundled in swaddling clothes. 

It makes a body humble. Giggling but humble. Oh! The giggling is the humble part. Thank  you, Father.

He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Thank you.