I would like to share something that just jumped out at me as I read it:

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing 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

Practice is active not passive. I can read all I want but I must get out of my reading chair and onto the zafu. Slowly this is starting sink in. The past few days I have sat zazen. Not for the 40 minutes my over-achieving ego would like, but non-the-less I have practiced sitting. For this I feel good.