Quotes About Equanimity

If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.

Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary.

We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.

Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

Be content and happy with whatever comes to you.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?

Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.

Real happiness in life comes from the mental capacity to adapt to any situation.

Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.

To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.

Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) and one does not do attachment at the time of attachment (generating incidents).

Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).

The 'Mind' in it's nature is conditioned to 'label'. From people, to situations, and circumstances to everything in between. When we allow the mind to shut down we let things be as they are.

Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. ( Essay to Leo Baeck , 1953)

A felicidade nunca é graciosa. Happiness is never gracious.