“To practice we must start exactly where we are. Of course, we can always imagine perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone else should behave. But it’s not our task to create an ideal. It’s our task to see how it is and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.”
– Ajahn Sumedho, The Way It Is (featured in The Buddha is Still Teaching by Jack Kornfield)