Quotes About Equanimity

When we accept as angelic gifts the restraints that are given to us, the result is equanimity.

It's occurred to him that he might have an undiscovered talent for letting things be.

A man needs to know when to let things lie.

Everything changes—an insight that can help free us from the pull of pleasure and the aversion to pain.

Equanimity is a profound quality of mindfulness that cultivates the ability to let go. With equanimity, we can acknowledge that things are as they are, even though we may wish otherwise.

put the least effort into dealing with a disturbing feeling that will do the job.

I realized that part of my struggle was in wishing things were different:

equanimity offers a great inner resource: a sense of nonreactivity, of patience and acceptance.

Their rule of thumb for classifying a state of mind was simple but profound: it depended on whether the mind state led to inner peace or disturbed the mind.

Equanimity practice can be an inner resource to turn to whenever we face difficult moments. The practice of equanimity involves silently repeating to yourself a phrase while you reflect on its meaning.

The Dalai Lama advises practicing equanimity before loving-kindness as a way to take the sting out of attachment to wanting things to be a certain way.

By becoming mindful we can drop the compulsion to try to make disturbing thoughts go away, to agitate ourselves by worrying, or to try to make things better or in any way different. We can be with life just as it is, observing completely what happens, without immediately trying to change it.

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

Nothing is wrong—whatever is happening is just "real life.

myself, "What would it be like if I could accept life—accept this moment—exactly as it is?

There's a prayer that comes from the Buddhist tradition, which is, 'May whatever arises serve the awakening of wisdom and compassion.

experience even the most intense craving without pushing it away or acting on it. Instead of hating her experience or losing herself in a swirl of mental activity, Sarah was saying yes to the feelings of urgency and tension and fear. Instead of trying to satisfy her craving, she was simply letting it express itself and move through her.

acceptance and presence

true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

May this too be held in lovingkindness.

When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

He who submits to fate without complaint is wise.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama says that if we can maintain a calm and peaceful mind, our external surroundings can only cause us limited disturbance.