Every moment of awareness is a hammer stroke on this chain of conditioning. Striking it with the force of wisdom and awareness, the chain gets weaker and weaker until it breaks.

Joseph Goldstein (1944 CE--), Joseph Goldstein, one of the first American vipassana teachers, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society, author of numerous popular books and resident guiding teacher, and leader of retreats worldwide on insight (vipassana) and lovingkindness (metta) meditation.