Quotes About Equanimity

It's not bad or good. It just is. That's something you'll find out if you decide to go into this line of work. You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they're supposed to be.

Sometimes it just is what it is, Wade. There are things we can change and things we can't. The key is knowing the difference.

there's no sense worrying about what you can't control. Doing that is a good way to go crazy.

T]houghts will arise. Don't be bothered by them. Don't think they're bad or that you shouldn't be having them. … If you leave them alone, they'll depart of their own accord. This is how to 'cease all movements of the conscious mind.' You cannot do it by the direct application of your will.

The only way to stay sane is to stop hoping for something better.

Subdue your heart to match your circumstances.

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We can then see for ourselves the obvious truth that when we cling or hold on to that which changes, we suffer.

Our progress in meditation does not depend on the measure of pleasure or pain in our experience. Rather, the quality of our practice has to do with how open we are to whatever is there.

Without the steadiness of concentration, it is easy to get caught up in the feelings, perceptions, and thoughts as they arise. We take them to be self and get carried away by trains of association and reactivity.

An emotion is like a cloud passing through the sky. Sometimes it is fear or anger, sometimes it is happiness or love, sometimes it is compassion. But none of them ultimately constitute a self. They are just what they are, each manifesting its own quality. With this understanding, we can cultivate the emotions that seem helpful and simply let the others be, without aversion, without suppression, without identification.

Why be unhappy about something if it can be remedied? And what is the use of being unhappy about something if it cannot be remedied?

God had bestowed fertility on his loins, equanimity on his heart and poverty on his hands.

I didn't try to run. I didn't even move. I just stood there and let justice take its course.

True Allowing is maintaining your own balance, your own joy, no matter what they are doing.

When we stop asking the question "Whose fault is it?" and start asking the question "How can I work with this now?" then we are truly stepping onto the path of taking responsibility for our karma. When

What are you thinking of?" he would cry. "You know already that you should not grieve over bad shots; learn now not to rejoice over the good ones. You must free yourself from the buffetings of pleasure and pain, and learn to rise above them in easy equanimity, to rejoice as though not you but another had shot well. This, too, you must practise unceasingly – you cannot conceive how important it is.

It was pointless to worry about problems I didn't yet have.

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

I think I'm very calm in adversity, always remaining calm, and I don't panic. I think that's the main thing.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

I have never felt the need to get agitated or hyper about anything in life.

I have no ill will about anything.

Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.