The Gift of Knowledge and Reality

Your face, Lord, do I seek. Psalm 27:8

There is a certain humbling character that the Gift of Knowledge imparts -- namely that we are basically prone to illusion and that our way of looking at life is not the only way and certainly not the most accurate. Such knowledge opens us, like the
opening of mind and heart that we pursue in centering prayer, to the reality of God just as God is...The Gift of Knowledge is an intuition into the fact that only God can satisfy our deepest longing for happiness...The Spirit of God in response to our centering prayer practice provides perspective for the energy that is channeled into...the daily frustration of our immoderate desires. The Spirit says to us: "You will never find happiness in any of your instinctual needs. They are only created things, and created things are designed to be stepping-stones to God, and not substitutes for God." The Spirit presents us with the true source of happiness, which is the experience of God as intimate and always present.

Psalm 27:8 "Come," my heart says, "seek his face!"