GOD IS MOTIONLESS

God is motionless.  We are not.  We are time bound, which means that everything for us ebbs and flows.  Now you see it, now you don’t.  Now God is with us, now God is not.
 
This explains the “dark night of the soul” phenomenon.  The “dark night of the soul” is when, following an intense spiritual period with God, a person suddenly seemingly loses Him. 
 
Accordingly, the person feels abandoned by God, and no matter what he does to regain Him, he cannot seem to do so.  This, in the worst cases, can last for years, until the tide turns again and just as suddenly God is back. 
 
Were we not time bound, we would experience God continuously.  All the coming and going, ebbing and flowing, is happening on our end, not on God’s.

It was Swami Prabhavananda who said, “There is never an instant when God is not with us,” and Meister Eckhart who said, “Nobody at any time is cut off from God,” except to the extent that our time bound condition cuts Him off.