Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.
Paramahansa YoganandaThe kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.
Paramahansa YoganandaSpirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to us. It exists as we see it owing to the delusive force of maya, which makes the indivisible Spirit seem finite and divisible to all appearances. Matter has existence in the same delusive way as does a mirage in the desert.
Paramahansa Yogananda