"Wisdom, understood as seeing things as they really are, is the crucial transformative principle in the Buddhist tradition.

As with the arising of mindfulness, so also for the arising of wisdom: it cannot be forced by the will or engineered by the technology of meditation. Yet the conditions which support the emergence of wisdom can be patiently and consistently cultivated, moment after mindful moment, until it unfolds as of its own accord, like the lotus bursting out above the water, or the moon flashing suddenly from behind a cloud."

Unlimiting mind - p. 174-175