Diminishing returns Quote by James H. Austin

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

— Andrew Weil

“One of the great dangers faced by monastic practitioners is that, after a few months or a few years or a few decades, we…

— Michael Casey

You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day to meditate.…

— Frederick Lenz

Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten…

— Frederick Lenz

Combine meditation with career as a yoga. You will find that your practice will not be any less powerful than a person who lives…

— Frederick Lenz

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a…

— Shane Claiborne

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

— Andrew Weil

“Monasticism had transformed the humble work of discipleship into the meritorious activity of the saints, and the self-renunciation of discipleship into the flagrant spiritual…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating…

— Frederick Lenz

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

— Sharon Salzberg

We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.

— Pema Chodron