Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life. — Lev Tolstoy.

The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death.

If you can succeed in purging yourself of the last traces of imperfection, you will know enlightenment.