Finding Essence

 There is an ancient story of a father teaching a son, who puffed up by his education, thinks he knows all. The father first tells his son to look at a lump of clay and tells him if you know clay, you know all things made of clay. Then the father asks him to pick a particular fruit and to break it open. He sees tiny seeds. The father tells him to break open a seed and asks what he sees.  The son realizes that he sees nothing. The father says "Yet there is the essence of the tree."

So too with God, the essence of all, in all. You cannot dissect to find God, you must go within, be still, and let the knowing rise. Be still and know that I am God.