Experience.

Don't wait till you die to see this.
Recognize that your imagination and your thinking
and your sense perception are reed canes
that children cut and pretend are horsies.

The knowing of mystic lovers is different.
The empirical, sensory, sciences
are like a donkey loaded with books,
or like the makeup woman's makeup.

                                                           It washes off.

But if you light the baggage rightly, it will give joy.

Don’t carry your knowledge-load for some selfish reason.

Deny your desires and willfulness,

and a real moment may appear under you.

Don’t be satisfied with the word HU,

with just words about it.

Experience that breathing.

From books and words come fantasy,
and sometimes, from fantasy comes union.

Rumi, from A Children's Game