Juxtapositions

Fast Travel
Those who are able to shut themselves up in this way within this little Heaven of the soul, wherein dwells the Maker of Heaven and earth, and who have formed the habit of looking at nothing and staying in no place which will distract these outward senses, may be sure that they are walking on an excellent road, and will come without fail to drink of the water of the fountain, for they will journey a long way in a short time. They are like one who travels in a ship, and, if he has a little good wind, reaches the end of his voyage in a few days, while those who go by land take much longer.
—Teresa of Avila, Way of Perfection, chapter 28, paragraph 6
On another occasion I asked Bhagavan: 'Nowadays, many people are crossing big oceans by plane in very short periods of time. I would like Bhagavan to find us a good device, a jnana airplane that can speedily transport us all to moksha.'
   This time Bhagavan replied, 'We are both traveling in a jnana airplane, but you don't understand this.'
—Annamalai Swami, Final Talks, chapter 15

Dissolution of the ego in the source
So all this subject of merging of me with I am is totally new because as we spoke, there's no tradition or no teacher that really understood what me is. In those paths where one has breached [sic] wholeness or liberation or enlightenment based on their traditions, if merging of me did occur, it was [an] entirely unconscious process based on grace or some kind of a natural evolution of that particular soul. The understanding of how it had happened or what actually happened was not present. Nobody understands what me is.
—Anadi (Aziz Kristof), "Awakening and merging of me" (recording), from January 2010 retreat in India, at 19:49
Mr. M. Frydman, an engineer, remarked on the subject of Grace, "A salt doll diving into the sea will not be protected by a waterproof coat". It was a very happy simile and was applauded as such. Maharshi added, "The body is the waterproof coat".
—Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, ed. Munagala Venkataramiah, talk 5