Like waves on the ocean, human beings play for a time, caught by the storm of delusion.  The ocean, however, is all the time pulling, pulling.  Sooner or later, all of them will have to be drawn back, to merge at last into the vast Ocean of Divine Love from which they came.

— The Essence of Self-Realisation, The Wisdom of Paramahamsa Yogananda : Recorded and Compiled by Kriyananda