The man who is in the right way has God truly with him. Now, if he has God in very truth, he has him in all places, in the road and when he is in somebody's company as well as in church or in the desert or in his cell. If he only has him properly and at all times, such a one cannot be hindered by any man.

Why is that?

Because he has only God and tends only to God, and all things become only God for him. Such a man bears God in all his works and in all places, and all the works of such a man are done solely by God; for the work belongs more properly and truly to him who causes it than to him who executes it. Thus, if we purely and solely tend to God, surely he must do our work, and in all his works no one, neither crowd nor place, can hinder him. Thus no one can hinder this man, for he neither strives nor seeks for, nor is he pleased by anything save God, for he is united to this man in all his intentions. And just as no multiplicity can distract God, so nothing can distract or dissipate this man; for he is one in the One, where all multiplicity is one and is non-multiplicity.

Man should seize God in all things and train his mind to have God always present in his intelligence and in his striving and in his love. Pay attention how you mind your God. When you are in church or in your cell: preserve this same attitude and take it with you among the crowd, into the unrest and into the unevenness. And, as I have said before--if we speak of 'evenness' we do not mean that we should hold all works or all places or all people to be equal. This would indeed be wrong, for praying is a better work than spinning, and the church a nobler place than the road. But you should have an even mind and trust and an even, serious devotion to your God. Truly, if you had such evenness, no one would prevent you from having God present.

Meister Eckhart