Psalms 139:7 Meaning Where Could I Go From Your Spirit

You cannot travel away from presence, because presence is not somewhere else. It is the awareness that is looking through your eyes right now, closer to you than your own thoughts. Wherever you go, here you are; whenever you arrive, it is always now. There is no doorway out of this moment.

People spend their lives trying to flee the present, escaping into memory, into worry, into the endless commentary of the mind. Yet the very awareness they are running from is what makes the running possible. You can lose yourself in thought, but you cannot leave the living presence that you are, because it goes wherever you go.

The spirit being sought is not somewhere to travel to but the very awareness doing the seeking, the presence already underlying every state a person can enter. No direction leads away from it because it is the field in which all directions appear, the consciousness beneath every high and low the self can reach. The whole restless motion of trying to escape only proves the thing cannot be left, for the one fleeing is made of what he flees. This is the I AM standing beneath waking and sleeping alike, present in the depths of the body and the heights of the mind at once.

What sounds like a question about hiding places is the discovery that a person's own awareness has no edge he could step outside of.

The question sounds like a search for an exit, and behind it hides the wish to have a private room where God is not looking, a corner for the appetite or the grudge no one supervises. That wish is the fault, and it fails on its own terms, because there is nowhere the searching light does not already reach.

The cure is to stop running and turn the running into welcome, to live as if watched by someone who loves the watching. A fish cannot flee the sea it swims in. The presence a person tries to escape is the very water holding him up.