The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he talked so much about silence. He said, "The radiant one inside me has never said a word."
Coleman BarksI had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from their cages.”
Coleman BarksLonging becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.
Coleman Barks