Change

You can't bring about change in your life without being able to face pain. The essence of self-conquest is learning to leave your comfort zone behind and facing pain. To finally reach a higher bliss.

Meditating throughout the day

The essence of meditating during every moment of the day is to simply stop waiting for the conditions to be right.

Sit down

The moment you find a place to sit down within yourself,  nothing else matters.

Throwing at life

A layperson mostly learns from life by what life throws at him. A monastic mostly learns from life by what he throws at life.

Conditions

As soon as other people's goodness becomes a condition for our own goodness, we have lost all our responsibility for our own humanity.

Choice

The holy life by definition is about making a choice. The very difference between a monastic and a lay person is that a monastic makes a choice,  and that a lay person doesn't. Lay life is marked by not making choices, and thus immorality.

Cynism

Cynism lies at the root of all evil.