Quotes About Equanimity

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

When fear is taken from you, all else can be taken from you and you will not be angry.

It's a talent I've developed-one thing I've learned recently. How to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm

If it comes, let it come. If it stays, let it stay. If it goes, let it go.

She accepted things because there was nothing else to compare them too.

I can easily be lying in the gutter with someone kicking mud in my face tomorrow as easily as I can float in the clouds with angels sprinkling fairy dust in my hair. So, I make an effort to treat both success and failure equally.

The way to peace is to be peaceful.

About to be hanged is my status quo, not a condition that requires your repair.

What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.

Instead, you must strive to be calm, even if a hundred ravening enemies are snapping at your heels. Empty your mind and allow it to become like a tranquil pool that reflects everything around it and yet remains untouched by its surroundings.

S?k?lmak ve k?zmak benim dostumun kulland??? duygulardan de?ildir.

If only this mist would clear, it would be a lovely day, she said faintly. And if only the clouds would thicken up it would be a miserable day, Mr. Allen contributed from behind the paper. It is what it is.

It was time for me to practice relaxing about the things I couldn't control.

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")

have. Our true nature is steady, receptive, and accepting of everything that happens, including our own misguided conclusions and behaviors.

Our true nature is steady, receptive, and accepting of everything that happens, including our own misguided conclusions and behaviors.

One of the qualities of our true nature besides being aware is that it is allowing and accepting. "Noticing" captures how consciousness touches the experiences of life but doesn't push them away, cling to them, judge them, or even evaluate them as good or bad, which are all features of the egoic self.

The antidote to the stress and suffering caused by the egoic mind is letting everything be as it is.

Life unfolds as it will regardless of whether we like what's happening or not. By opposing life, we eventually learn this truth. We learn how impotent our opposition to life is and that this opposition causes only suffering. What's left is choosing to agree with life—to love whatever is, no matter what that looks like.

A thing is complete when you can let it be.