"Show us the Father" St. Augustine of Hippo

Don't go looking for any end beside God, in case by looking for an end beside God, you find yourself being consumed, not completed.  What is an end, after all, but the point we wish to reach, to stop at, and not to look for anything beyond it?  Because if you get there, but are still looking for something, you haven't yet reached the end.  So to reach the end is to reach the spot where you say,

"That's enough."

Philip thought that the Father alone was such an end, and so he said, 
Lord, show us the Father and it is enough for us (john 14:8);
 but the Lord showed him that God is the end, God the Trinity.  Accordingly, when you say "Christ is the end," you should not be excluding God the Father; and when you say, "God the Father is the end," you should not be excluding Christ.  Philip apparently wished to exclude him, supposing that Christ was only what he could see with his eyes, so he cheerfully said, Show us the Father, and it is enough for us.

What do you mean It is enough for us?

That's where our desire ends; we won't be seeking any further; that's where we shall find total satisfaction, where we shall say, "It's enough, I don't want anymore."
Why's that?

Because we already know you.  Please show us the Father.  Since we can see you, after all, and cannot see him, we aren't satisfied.  We are overjoyed because we can see you; but show us him, and we'll be satisfied; we won't require anything more.

And the Lord said to him, because he is himself the end, himself the one who totally satisfies, so in order to relieve him of what he was assuming--he was assuming, you see, that he wasn't seeing the Son of God, when he was seeing the form of a servant--so he said to Philip, Have I been with you all this time, and you have not recognized me?

When you are looking for the end, and do not see what you see, well that of course is why you are looking for the end, because you can't see the end standing in front of you. 

Do you not believe, he said, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?  (John 14:9-10)

Drawn to a Great Truth

......if He should call you, 
Let yourself be drawn to Him.
He may lead you to a great truth.
Do not dwell on yourself, nor should you--
A creature subject to multiplicity and change--
   seek Him.
Rest in tranquility, loftier than action or feeling.
And you will find that as you lose yourself
He will give you strength.

Be pleased to remain where it pleases Him to place
     you.
Straining to find Him is of no avail;
Be at Peace with yourself.  He embraces you.
Return His embrace, but do not feel wronged
When He absents Himself.  Give no thought to yourself;
If you love as you should, you will be filled with joy!
Because that love in itself
Glows with a light that does not fail.

You know that you can only possess
To the extent that He will give;
What He withholds you cannot acquire;
Nor can you hold on to what you have
Unless He grants you that grace.
Your Path from beginning to end
Lies beyond your power;
The choice is not yours but the Lord's.

Hence, if you have found Him know in truth
That it was through no power of yours.
The good that is given you
Comes out of charity; it is a gift,
Not the fruit of your own efforts. 
Let all your desire; then,
Be directed toward Him.
The Infinite One, Giver of all good.

Brother Jacopone da Todi (+1306) OFM