Contemplative author Brennan Manning says that God is like a child playing hide-and-seek, who laments, “I run and hide—but no one comes to seek me.” If we want to see God, we must look for the Divine Presence. But where should we look? Spiritual masters from many religious traditions emphasize that the first step is to escape the world’s busyness. Alone, in silence, a seeker can begin to hear the Voice. As Mahatma Gandhi put it, “The divine radio is always singing if we could only make ourselves ready to listen to it, but it is impossible to listen without silence.”
