Paramahansa Yogananda um Yoga

 

The world's various religions are based more or less on the beliefs of man. But the true basis of religion should be a science that all devotees may apply in order to reach our one Father-God. Yoga is that science.

Yoga is a system of scientific methods for reuniting the soul with the Spirit....Yoga teaches us how to rise above the delusion of separation and realize our oneness with God.

The purpose and goal of Yoga [is] to regain the lost paradise of soul consciousness by which man knows that he is, and ever has been, one with Spirit.

 

Paramahansa Yogananda - Man´s Eternal Quest

The great and rare mystics of the past

 

The great and rare mystics of the past (from Buddha to Christ, from al-Hallaj to Lady Tsogyal, from Hui-neng to Hildegard) were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.

 

Ken Wilber - Sex, Ecology, Spirituality