People say they have no time to meditate, then describe an evening containing two hours of scrolling. The issue is not time. The issue is that scrolling asks nothing of you and sitting asks a little.

Twenty minutes twice a day is roughly two per cent of your waking hours. It is less than the time you spend looking for things you have misplaced, which, incidentally, is a habit that improves with practice.

The most common objection to daily practice, and the arithmetic that answers it.

The point is not to be pious about it. The point is that this particular two per cent has leverage. It changes the quality of the other ninety-eight.