Slowing Down and Stopping

"Often we can't feel a sense of the Divine because we don't let ourselves alone.   I believe in a spirituality of radical non-self-interference.   If we can just let ourselves be then we will find that in that act of acceptance that there is something really subversive.  There is nothing as radical and subversive as an act of acceptance.   Sometimes when we call off our search and our hunger for God, it is then that we allow ourselves to be found by the Divine.   God is not lost from us.   It is rather that we are so often lost and exiled from ourselves and when we call a halt to that search then we find that unknown to ourselves we've already been resting in the tender embrace of God's lovely presence."  John O' Donahue