Quotes About Equanimity

We are in training to be all right no matter what our experience is. This is not to say that there will not be countless times when we will judge the pain in our back or our breath - that is the nature of a wobbly mind - but we will increasingly see clearly that we do not want to go down this route.

It is what it is and it's okay. I'll be okay, you'll be okay, and the world will keep turning.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad.

I have always taken everything as it comes and tried to stay in good shape.

Even the good things don't go to my head and I don't let the bad things affect me.

To 'want' something, to 'strive' after something to have an 'aim' or a 'wish' in my mind — I know none of this from experience. Even at this moment I look out upon my future — a distant future! as upon a calm sea: no sigh of longing makes a ripple on its surface. I have not the slightest wish that anything should be otherwise than it is: I do not want myself different than I am. But in this matter I have always been the same. I have never had a desire.

The older you get, the wiser you get, and you realise there's no need to blow a top over things.

It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Just think of any negativity that comes at you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.

Keep your cool, even when those around you can't.

Devotion means dropping the dualities of like and dislike, attachment and aversion. It means "what's fine" and "what's not fine" do not exist for you anymore; everything is fine. When a devotee says "God is everywhere" or "everything is God," he is essentially saying "everything is fine.

Samadhi is a state of equanimity where the intellect goes beyond its normal function of discrimination. This in turn loosens one from this physical body. A space between what is you and your body is created. Death means the physical body is completely lost. There is no contact with the physical body. Samadhi means that the physical body is intact, but the contact with the physical body has become very minimal.

But you won't ever see me distressed because my way of being is not in any way enslaved to what's happening outside. This is not an otherworldly achievement. It is possible for everyone to live this way.

I'm cool, you're cool, it's cool

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.

It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.

Do not let the future disturb you, for you will arrive there, if you arrive, with the same reason you now apply to the present.