Quotes About Equanimity

I don't look for a fight or look for animosity or tension where it's not needed.

This is something that can happen again and again via meditation: accepting, even embracing, an unpleasant feeling can give you a critical distance

This is something that can happen again and again via meditation: accepting, even embracing, an unpleasant feeling can give you a critical distance from it that winds up diminishing the unpleasantness.

There's no doubt that meditation training has allowed some people to become essentially indifferent to what otherwise would have been unbearable pain.

RAIN. First you Recognize the feeling. Then you Accept the feeling (rather than try to drive it away). Then you Investigate the feeling and its relationship to your body. Finally, the N stands for Nonidentification, or, equivalently, Nonattachment

He once recounted a time when he was trying to meditate and kept getting interrupted by sounds from a festival in a nearby village. Then, as he recalls it, he had a realization: "The sound is just the sound. It's me who is going out to annoy it. If I leave the sound alone, it won't annoy me. . . . If I don't go out and bother the sound, it's not going to bother me.

liberation from the craving to capture pleasant feelings and escape unpleasant feelings, liberation from the persistent desire for things to be different than they are.

liberation from the persistent desire for things to be different than they are.

mostanában észrevettem magamon egy nyugtalanító tendenciát, elfogadom a dolgokat olyannak, amilyenek.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, for they heed not thy vexation.

The wise man takes the shortest path to peace with himself.' Acceptance of what is, that is the shortest path.

I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.

Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself.

At the moment of deciding not to argue further, he had given up all emotional investment in the situation. He had withdrawn his anma into himself as he had been taught to do, divesting it of his anger and offense as he did so. It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man. He swept his mind clean of reactions to the filthy blanket. By the time he reached the foredeck, he had regained not just calmness, but wholeness.

It didn't seem fair, but then, a lot of things aren't. We take them as they come.

I agree not to expect anything

Rockefeller always felt uneasy about venting anger or making an egotistical show of protest, and he pretended to accept this demotion with equanimity.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same

Al éxito y al fracaso, esos dos impostores, trátalos siempre con la misma indiferencia

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and And treat those two impostors just the same

There is no pride,' said the lama, after a pause, 'there is no pride among such as follow the Middle Way.

I too am subject to ageing, sickness, and death, not beyond ageing, sickness, and death, and that I should see another who is old, sick or dead and be shocked, disturbed, and disgusted —this is not fitting.' As I reflected thus, the conceit of youth, health, and life entirely left me.21