One practices like this

“I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind.” One practices like this.

-The Sutra on Full Awareness of Breathing, translated by Thich Nhat Hanh

Everything is as it is

Everything is as it is. It has no name other than the name we give it. It is we who call it something; we give it a value. We say this thing is good or it's bad, but in itself, the thing is only as it is. It's not absolute; it's just as it is. People are just as they are.

-Ajahn Sumedho, "The Mind and the Way"

When tranquility is developed

When tranquility is developed,
what purpose does it serve?
The mind is developed.
And when the mind is developed,
what purpose does it serve?
Passion is abandoned.

When insight is developed,
what purpose does it serve?
Discernment is developed.
And when discernment is developed,
what purpose does it serve?
Ignorance is abandoned.

-Anguttara Nikaya