"There is always something lost when the contemplative begins to express their perceptions in language to anyone who has not yet attained the same states of awareness. 

The moment symbolic expression —verbal, graphic, mathematical-is used, the mark has, to some extent, been missed.


Nonetheless, one tries! 

We hunt for words to give the flavor of the experience of the ineffable, even if the experience is, by definition, beyond description. So in the coming descriptions there will be many words and images. 

They are necessary but insufficient compromises."

Notes on Complexity, 170
Neil Theis