Close To Being True

How can we know the divine qualities from within? If we know only through metaphors, its like when children ask what sex feels like and you answer, “Like candy so sweet.” The suchness of sex comes with being inside the pleasure Whatever you say about the mysteries, I know, or I don’t know, both are close to being true. Neither is quite a lie. Coleman Barks (2003) Rumi the Book of Love: poems of ecstasy and longing New York: Harper Collins, pg. 88