Stop Wanting

The very desire to be free or to be enlightened will be the desire that prevents your freedom.

Achaan Chah

The enlightened never stop forging themselves

Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves. The realizations of such masters cannot be expressed well in words or by theories. The most perfect actions echo the patterns found in nature.

Morihei Ueshiba trans. John Stevens in "The Art of Peace" page 52

To be enlightened

To know things is to be learned.

To know others is to be wise.

To know the self is to be enlightened.

Anthony de Mello in "The Prayer of the Frog" page 192