The Presence in "Thin Places"

There is a Celtic saying that heaven and earth are only three feet apart but in the thin places that distance is even smaller.  Thin places are those places where one can feel the presence of God and know that God is close at hand.  Some say it is a place where the veil between this world and the other world is thin and closer at hand.   It seems that truth abides in thin places and finding that space captures our imagination and desire.

Mahatma Ghandi, the Indian leader, believed and spoke about this saying, "A thin place is where one feels that indefinable mysterious power".   He believed that that power was God.

I want to do more reading on this.  There are all kinds of books out there that talk about the wheres and the whys and the hows of finding these "thin places".   But I want to do more than read about them;  I want to experience this sensation in a real way.   I want to be certain that I am not missing opportunities every day, along the way, waiting for something that is potentially close at hand.

C. S. Lewis talked about this:

...the real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it.  It comes the very moment you wake up each morning.  All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals.  And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back;  in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.  And so on, all day.  Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings, coming in out of the wind.