Quotes About Equanimity

Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.

The closer a person is to calm, the closer they are to strength.

No mostrar nunca la apariencia de cólera ni de ninguna otra pasión

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

How easy it is to drive away or obliterate from one's mind every impression which is troublesome or alien, and then to be immediately in perfect calm. p36

You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you.

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you.

It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul, for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgments.

Uno se deleita en una cosa, el otro en otra. Pero yo me deleito en conservar sano mi principio rector, sin experimentar aversión por hombre alguno, ni por cosa alguna que acontezca a los hombres, antes bien mirándolo todo con buenos ojos, aceptando y usando de cada cosa según su merito.

To retain self-control, mental poise, equanimity, under all provocations, great or small, is an indication of a fine strong character. It is a triumph of strength over weakness, of greatness over littleness. The habit of conquering ourselves is the habit of victory; it strengthens all the faculties.

He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.

He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened. He accepted the universe and his place in it for what they were and, shrugging, turned to his music and books and his better world.

The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession

When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing a time of need.

I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

we are only horses, and don't know.

You'll find a man can live without his money as merrily as a tortoise without its head, or a wasp without its body." '"But

It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.

Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

I desperately want to stop minding so much about other people, life, and myself. Krishnamurti, the great Indian teacher, when asked what was the secret to his serenity, said in his soft, shy voice, "I don't mind what happens." This is so not me—I mind his having even said this.

If you really want peace in any world you have to learn to say nothing.

Will did not think that was fair, but he accepted that kings were often unfair and there was naught to be done about it.

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.