The importance of conventional life is greatly exaggerated and a good death can do wonders. - Ken McLeod

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

At every stage of practice a price has to be paid for clarity. The price is the loss of an illusion.

If you don't clearly understand what you are looking for in a teacher or in internal work, you will inevitably accept someone else's agenda as your own. While you may start internal transformative work on the suggestion or advice of another person, at some point your practice has to become a response to your own questions about life and being.