Jeremiah 23:24 Meaning Can Anyone Hide Himself in Secret Places

There is no secret place you can go where awareness is not already present. The ego dreams of hidden corners and private thoughts, an inner self sealed off from everything. But the very consciousness by which you would hide is the presence you imagine you are hiding from. You cannot step outside of it, because it is what you are looking with.

Do I not fill heaven and earth. This is not the threat of a distant judge watching you. It is the plain fact that awareness is everywhere, filling this moment completely, leaving no gap where a truly separate self could exist. When you stop hiding and rest as that all-pervading presence, the loneliness of separation ends, because there was never anywhere apart from it to be.

The question is put to prophets who spoke lies in a corner and thought the corner was private. That is the secret disease, the belief that some closet exists where the deed goes unwatched, where a person can be one thing in the dark and another in the open. The hiding is itself the sin.

The cure is to live as one already seen, letting the private self match the public one. And God is the fullness that leaves no empty closet, filling heaven and earth so completely that whoever hides already stands inside the presence he flees.