Quotes About Equanimity

Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself.

Taming attachment, does not mean becoming cold and disinterested. On the contrary, it means learning to have a composed control over our mind through understanding

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Being at one with everything just means accepting that the future is always going to be unsure and learning to find ways to be okay with the uncontrollable sequence of events.

Do not be hot tempered.

The peace and equanimity of the Buddha comes from an acceptance of the transitory nature of life.

The price dip didn't disturb Munger's equanimity. "I'm 76 years of age," he said. "I've been through a number of down periods. If you live a long time, you're going to be out of investment fashion some of the time.

When nothing can be done it is not a bad idea to do nothing.

If you can access the sense of your inherent preciousness, you can rise above shame. If you can meditate and feel equanimity, you may be able to rise above your distress.

This is my secret, he said. I don't mind what happens.

Everything is honored, but nothing matters.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is — no matter what form it takes — you are still, you are at peace.

If there is nothing you can do, face what is and say, 'Well, right now, this is how it is. I can either accept it, or make myself miserable. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is. There is the situation or the fact, and here are my thoughts about it.

There *are* no problems. Only situations - to be dealt with now, or to be left alone and accepted as part of the 'isness' of the present moment until they change or can be dealt with.

You don't seek permanency where it cannot be found: in the world of form, of gain and loss, birth and death. You don't demand that situations, conditions, places, or people should make you happy, and then suffer when they don't live up to your expectations. Everything is honored, but nothing matters. Forms are born and die, yet you are aware of the eternal underneath the forms. You know that "nothing real can be threatened."3

And the miracle is that when you are no longer placing an impossible demand on it, every situation, person, place, or event becomes not only satisfying but also more harmonious, more peaceful.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

To be in alignment with what is means to be in a relationship of inner nonresistance with what happens. It means not to label it mentally as good or bad, but to let it be.

The present moment is as it is. Always. Can you let it be?

A situation needs to be either dealt with or accepted. Why make it into a problem?

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?