From There to Here.

“As long as a man feels that God is ‘there’, he is ignorant. But he attains Knowledge when he feels that God is ‘here’.

“A man wanted a smoke. He went to a neighbour’s house to light his charcoal. It was the dead of night and the household was asleep. After he had knocked a great deal, someone came down to open the door.

At sight of the man he asked,
‘Hello! What’s the matter?’

The man replied:
‘Can’t you guess? You know how fond I am of smoking. I have come here to light my charcoal.’

The neighbour said:
‘Ha! Ha! You are a fine man indeed!
You took the trouble to come and do all this knocking at the door! Why, you have a lighted lantern in your hand!’

“What a man seeks is very near him. Still he wanders about from place to place.”

– The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna.