These are helpful quotes, thank you

I especially try to keep this one in mind;
“The Lord is stingy with those who are stingy with Him.”
My grandfather was an officer in the french army an fighted agaisnt Rommel in North Africa. He met him too in that context.
He had the highest possible esteem for this general : smartest and more aristocratic man he ever met.
Komyo sometimes people are placed in our lives to remind us there are often things we do not want to do but we must. There are days I do not feel like meditating or energizing but without some discipline on the spiritual path there can be no progress. Sometimes we have to think of ourselves as soul soldiers. If we cannot endure the discipline of the Gurus we may find ourselves again faced by the discipline of the world and its leaders.