After echoing what Luke reports (“the kingdom of God is within you” [Luke 17:21]), here Jesus goes on to explain that God’s kingdom is not a place in space—not, as often imagined, in the sky, or in “heaven.” Nor is it an event in time, coming at the end of the world. Instead, it’s a state of spiritual awareness—illuminating who we truly are, and who we always have been, even before the world was created.
