"All we have to do is to recognize God as being intimately present within us." -- Brother Lawrence Brother Lawrence's seventeenth-century spiritual classic The

“All we have to do is to recognize God as being intimately present within us.” — Brother Lawrence Brother Lawrence’s seventeenth-century spiritual class

Why is it so difficult to simply be present? The reason is that our deeply suppressed emotional imprints from childhood which Eckhart Tolle calls the pain-body