The ineffable challenge

In Tews' days' mailbox...

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean. – Rumi

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 Barks

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. – Rumi