Quotes About Equanimity

The problem is not one of being wrong or right, but one of being more or less skillful.

Some people think that to end suffering, you have to stop everything — body, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness — but that is not correct

All the elements for your happiness are already here. There's no need to run, strive, search or struggle. Just be.

According to Buddhism, consciousness is like a field with every possible kind of seed in it: seeds of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity; seeds of anger, fear, and anxiety; and seeds of mindfulness. Consciousness is the storehouse that contains all these seeds, all the possibilities of what might arise in your mind.

Everything used to get under my skin, and now I'll just be like, 'That's life.' I'm so much more unbothered.

I am one of those people who are really short-tempered, but I don't lose it unless it is justified.

There are always highs and lows in life, but if you maintain an even keel, then you can take the right decisions.

You just have to stay the course, you can't get too high or too low on yourself. There is always going to be those highs and those lows, but you have to stay even keel yourself.

I try to keep an even keel.

When you succeed, you know, you can get swell-headed or you can be failing, and then you are all down in doldrums. So I try, as much as possible, to keep an even keel.

For me, I try to stay even keel.

I'm not happier because I'm starting on the Knicks. I could be starting, I could be coming off of the bench, and I'd be the same way.

I know, but it reminds me that I have no control over life. Life doesn't care if you're a soldier or a seventh grader or an aquatic reptile. Things happen.

Freedom is instantaneous the moment we accept things as they are.

One of the best lessons you can learn in life is to master how to remain calm.

People who tell you never to let little things bother you have never tried sleeping in a room with a mosquito.

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

The trick is in not minding.

Until you stop being governed by your emotions you cannot be impartial.

I began to feel a little more at evens with the world and I made friends with a little horse called 'Amber', who got on very well with Jews.

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." That's

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Practice focused apathy.

Give us serenity as we also allow others serenity.