Quotes About Equanimity

Thoughts well up in our mind moment by moment. But we refrain from doing anything with our thoughts. We just let everything come up freely and go away freely. We don't grasp anything. We don't try to control anything. We just sit.

Love has neither aversion to pain nor attraction to bliss. Love is just fully itself in both.

A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

NOTHING which life has to offer is worth the price of worry

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

When you are like a maniac, you just have to accept where you are and what's going on in your life.

... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

You have to make peace with life

I'm fine with the life I have.

I don't have life rage anymore.

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

People who have a good supply of GABA or have brains that are naturally very responsive to GABA may be the people who are naturally cool and calm, possessed of an innate equanimity.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear -- when you are the hammer, strike.

For all your years prepare, And meet them ever alike; When you are the anvil, bear-- When you are the hammer, strike.

For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.

don't care who wins. It is of no consequence to me who gets the cup and who doesn't. What I enjoy is seeing these great players equally challenged, because it brings out the best in each of them.

Nobody is upsetting you. Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable.

Training the mind to be patient and calm under all circumstances, then, often begins with learning to wear our likes and dislikes loosely, casually, like a favorite old sweater.

maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset

I'm dead, but I'm fine

Truly tolerant people are hard to offend.

Trust an instinct and insight that none can or should equate anyone's silence with his patience for the true wisdom is that the silence is the strength of someone, but the patience is the power of everyone.

is a way of being that gives you the resources to deal with the ups and downs of life