God’s nature is unspeakable. The hidden darkness of the Eternal Light, of the Eternal Godhead, is unknown, and shall never be known. He is pure nothing; He is neither this, nor that. If you think of anything He might be, He is not that.
The Godhead is not a being; does not have being — does not exist, as such. But is rather Pure Being, Itself. Existence is God. The Isness of all that exists is God. The Godhead at its ground is utterly One, Simple and Undifferentiated — Impersonal. This very Divine ground is also the innermost of the human Soul — the image and likeness of God.
God’s ground is my ground. And my ground is God’s ground. God’s ground and the Soul’s ground is One ground. The ground is, by nature, receptive to nothing — save only the Divine Essence, without mediation. Why do we pray? Why do we fast? Why do we do all our works? Why are we baptised? Why, most important of all, did God become Man? I would answer, in order that God would be born in the Soul, and the Soul be born in God.
For that reason, all the scriptures were written. For that reason, God created the world. God is creating the whole world now, in this instant. What does it avail me that this birth of the Son of God is always happening if it does not happen in me? There must be in the individual a response to Grace, that is an opening up to God, through a turning inward into the vast and silent terrain — The Eternal Now of the ground. Whoever seeks God in a special way, gets the way and misses God, who lies hidden in it. Rather, through collected inwardness of contemplation, with a bare mind, one is able to achieve the radical detachment from multiplicity and creatures.
We must detach from the imagined God that vanishes when the idea vanishes, and be satisfied only with the essential God. I was asked — Some people shun all company, an always want to be alone… their peace depends on it, and on being in church... Was that the best thing? And I said ‘No.’ Now see why: one who is in a right state, is always in a right state, wherever they are, and with everybody. They have only God, think only of God and all things are, for them, nothing but God. The best place to find God is where we left him. God is apprehended equally, in all things, and in all places.