Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that. But to talk about it is of little use. The practice has to be done by each individual. There is no substitute. We can read about it until we are a thousand years old and it won’t do a thing for us. We all have to practice, and we have to practice with all of our might for the rest of our lives.
Charlotte Joko Beck in Everyday Zen. As quoted by David Riley at The Endless Further in his tribute to her. (Thank you, dhammanovice)

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