John 4:32 Meaning But He Said to Them

The meat is an inner nourishment, a truth taken in and lived from, unknown to those who feed only on what the senses hand them. Imagination has fed on a state assumed and satisfying, and it needs nothing the outer world can bring. To dwell in the feeling of the wish fulfilled is to be already fed, whatever the table outside shows.

Those around have no idea of this food because they measure fullness by facts. But a person who has accepted the desired state as his own is sustained from within, drawing on his own awareness rather than on circumstance. The hidden meat is the assumption held and enjoyed until it is done. One who eats it hungers no longer for the thing outside, because he has taken it in as himself.