There are distractions, of course, but meditation doesn't eliminate distractions, distractions, it manages them. - Jay Shetty

No one organ was more important than another; all of them worked in concert, and the body needed them all.

The point of this story is that when you’re dealing with crocodiles, you should leave your heart at home. You can’t always be vulnerable. Sometimes it will be used against you.

The Monastic Way quotes Benedictine monk Dom Aelred Graham as saying, “The monk may think he has come [to the monastery] to gain something for himself: peace, security, quiet, a life of prayer, or study, or teaching; but if his vocation is genuine, he finds that he has come not to take but to give.