Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Ernest Wood
Born: August 18, 1883
Died: September 17, 1965 (aged 82)
Bio: Ernest Egerton Wood was a noted English yogi, theosophist, Sanskrit scholar, and author of numerous books, including Concentration An Approach to Meditation, Yoga and The Pinnacle of Indian Thought.
Known for:
- Concentration: An Approach to Meditation (1900)
- The seven rays (1925)
- Seven schools of yoga (1931)
- Great systems of yoga (1954)
- Zen dictionary (1962)