Try

We can hear a thousand wise sayings, or read a hundred insightful books, but unless we absorb those teachings and practise them in our every day lives, they are meaningless.

Just as if you were to visit a doctor regarding some illness, and he prescribed you medicine that would make you well, but after you left his surgery, you never actually took the medicine, but instead popped it in a drawer and continued to be ill.

The responsibility lies with us and no-one else.

To live with compassion and to end suffering – these things are not easy, they are not achieved over-night, but they will never be achieved if we don’t try.

And in the trying, we succeed, because we are trying.

The goal is both far away and right in front of us at the same time – just as there is no goal and the trying is everything.

When we live with good intention, then compassion and the cessation of suffering accompany it.

All we ever have to think about is trying to do that now, right now, in this one moment. If we can do that, in this one moment, then we do it always – as there is never any other moment than this.