Quotes About Equanimity

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need to engage in the process of awakening.

Preparing for the ups and downs of life.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

However, in the markets losses should be viewed like the light bulbs or rotten fruit mentioned earlier: part of the business and taken with equanimity. Loss is not the same as wrong, and loss is not necessarily bad.

Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

Surrender to the things that can't be changed is one of the keys to peace of mind.

In simple presence with what is right here now, be it joyful or painful, an amazing freedom reveals itself. It cannot be described or explained in words. It is the freedom to be totally, effortlessly the way things are at this moment. ?—?Toni Packer

I learnt a long time back to accept whatever comes my way. Best savor the good and bear up under the bad. There ain't no changin' none of it.

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

No more of this llama drama!

Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is, and how it keeps a good mouth and a good temper, they would surely not chuck, and drag, and pull at the rein as they often do.

Why should you feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice.

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

I just think of people, she continued, whether they seem right where they are and fit into a picture. I don't mind if they don't do anything. I don't see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when people do anything.

My own rule is to let everything alone.

calmness wasn't an end in itself

I accept injustice as I accept a stone not being round

I'm not fighting with myself.

If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.

Whatever happens, who cares.

Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.

I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.