A couple of passages, first from Meister Eckhart and then Emma Jung’s reflections upon it.
Purely for my own purposes I have replaced the word ‘God’ with the word ‘life’.

“For when I want to seek life, I seek either my idea of life or my feeling, the image that I created of life, or my sense of what I called life. But all this is not life; all this is, at bottom, just me again.”

— Meister Eckhart

The troublesome thing for us now is to be ourselves, now and here on this earth, just as we are, today and here, not as we want to be or should be. But that is not all that I have to learn: I also have to face everyone else as they are, now and here—not as they were yesterday or may be tomorrow—as the person I am, right now and here. And the same is true for life in general.
This is particularly difficult for us, for we want anything but what is now and here, just as it is. We are always looking for possibilities, past or future, that could invalidate the here and now.
Now that I see that I do not know what, or where, life is, that I have fallen into a complete nothingness, into a frightening darkness, I also see that my only choice is to hold on to what is given to me:
The closest Here,
The shortest Now,
And the firmest Earth.
For if today my truth is that I know nothing about life, then this is to be accepted as my present reality, not as something to flee or to overcome, but rather as something that exists and rightly persists.
Only in this way am I completely human; and only when I am completely human can life be completely life.

— Emma Jung

I am particularly struck by how similar, in essence, these reflections are to a Buddhist or contemporary meditative sensibility and the resonance between Meister Eckhart’s opening passage and the opening lines of the Tao Te Ching is quite striking.

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.”