The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness. – Raphael, Essence and Purpose of Yoga: The Initiatory Pathways to the Transcenden
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. – Francis Bacon
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. – Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)