At a certain juncture on the path, you discover that all the great healers and teachers and mystics of humanity are waiting behind a razor-thin veil of light to meet you and help you help others. The unveiling of this mystery of communion between all lovers of God and of the world beyond time and death is one of the holiest of revelations and one of the most useful; the responsibilities of the later stages of the path would often be unfathomable and lonely without it.
— Andrew Harvey, Selections from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna by Kendra Crossen Burroughs