Activity Quote by Ajahn Chah

So meditation is not really mind-effort. Real meditation is not effort at all. Real meditation is just allowing the mind to have its own…

— Rajneesh

Meditation is not your doing. You simply make the effort, but it is not your doing. Your effort is needed to prepare the ground.…

— Rajneesh

Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Choose one meditation and then put all your effort in it. That effort has to be very regular because will is created only out…

— Rajneesh

Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and…

— Carol S. Dweck

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

— Jack Kornfield

Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to…

— Dalai Lama

It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them, to learn to be perfect in your meditation, and…

— Frederick Lenz

In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and…

— Bruce Lee

When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Effort, concentration, and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to…

— Sylvia Boorstein

Since the real purpose of meditation is to increase our capacity to help others, taking time each day to meditate is not selfish. We…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso