Buddhist teacher Joseph Goldstein on progress:
"People progress in different ways. It’s said that some people progress slowly and with a lot of pain. Others progress slowly but with mostly pleasant sensations. Some progress quickly with a lot of pain, and others progress quickly with a lot of pleasure. It very much depends on our past accumulations of karma, how developed our spiritual faculties of mind already are. But if we’re facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep walking. If it takes a year, or sixty years, or five lifetimes, as long as we’re heading towards light, that’s all that matters. We want to be facing in the direction of freedom, not going backwards, not going towards more darkness. So whatever each person’s evolution might be, where we are is where we have to start from."
Source: ​The Experience of Insight ​​
