The Cloud of Unknowing is the "negative" way [of coming to "know" God]. This tradition embraces a God who totally escapes the power of our minds and our imaginations, the best efforts of our language....

If we insist on thinking and talking about God -- which we must -- the most we can expect from our best efforts is to say what God is not. He -- she -- is utterly different, utterly other than anything we can experience or name.

We approach God, therefore, not by pushing the envelope of our rational efforts as far as it will go, but by accepting the ultimate limitations of our mind, by coming to understand that our journey is to a place where only love can go.