Quotes About Equanimity

It's important now to just live with this and not fight it mentally…mind control….

If your life works, and you work in it, then it's okay, whatever is happening is okay.

If you're alive, don't move, if you're dead, don't worry about it.

Screaming was for when you didn't have anything better to do.

Y en tanto un hombre cabalgue sobre su CABALLO DE JUGUETE tranquila y apaciblemente por el camino real sin obligarnos ni a usted ni a mí a montar tras él,—dígame, señor, ¿qué nos importa tal cosa a ninguno de los dos?

To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you a will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace.

Of course, there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be.

Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. Ajahn Chah

The equanimity with regard to my handwriting vanishes when I look at the corrections I make to a script...here my handwriting is big, childish, clumsy with no evidence of character and purpose... mine reverts to the all-over-the-place stuff I used to write while I was in the army and before I got to University... why I've no idea. But it is so.

Don't go to pieces. Go to peace.

What comes of itself, let it come. What goes of itself, let it go.

whether it concerns the things which are in our control, or those which are not; and, if it concerns anything not in our control, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you.

is not about making the world a peaceful place; it is about us being at peace with the world.

The wise want nothing but accept whatever comes their way, letting it pass when it is time to part ways. Ram is

Most desired form of happiness? 'Contentment

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

There's no point in crying over spilt milk!' CHAPTER SEVEN

Don't follow after the object of hatred, look at the angry mind. Anger liberated by itself as it arises is mirrorlike wisdom. Don't chase after the object of pride, look at the grasping mind. Self-importance liberated as it arises is the wisdom of equanimity. Don't hanker after the object of desire, look at the craving mind.

Welcome the view that the things which you think are wrecking your life - like your thoughts and emotions, or illness and death - are actually gifts for your transformation... Whether life presents us with a pleasant sound or an unpleasant sound, a pleasant smell or an unpleasant smell, a pleasant thought or an unpleasant thought, it's sheer delight because instead of identifying with the experience, we simply touch it and let it go.

If you master your mind, it will remain naturally concentrated, peaceful and aware. You will even be able to wander around in a crowd without being distracted and carried away by desire or aversion.