Each time you sit down to practice, take a few minutes to feel in your heart why this is important to you. - Ken McLeod

When you read sutras don't seek to understand them. Stay in touch with precisely what they are eliciting in terms of experience in you.

The most reliable way to cut through the thinking process is to bring attention to what you are experiencing in the body.

Some find they can practice effectively by bringing attention to the arising of like, dislike and indifference in their meditation practice and daily life. Others are able to use the power of loving kindness, compassion, equanimity, or devotion to change the way they experience things. And still others develop or naturally have enough capacity in awareness that they experience attraction as delight, aversion as clarity, and indifference as non-thought.