Quotes About Equanimity

equanimity is the ability to achieve emotional equilibrium, to have a full range of emotions and attain a sense of balance within that rich inner and interpersonal life that both creates and embraces who we are and who we can become.

Deja pasar las nubes de las emociones: enseña que los sentimientos vienen y se van

Mindful awareness / Mindful (Res):Awareness of present-moment experience, with intention and purpose, without grasping on to judgments. Traits of being mindful are having an open stance toward oneself and others, emotional equanimity, and the ability to describe the inner world of the mind.

the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.

It was not a matter of choosing sides, it was a matter of rising above the whole concept of sideness.

Impatience is only another form of resistance. It

Attachment masquerades as Love, Pity as Compassion and Indifference as Equanimity.

And yet,' Gamache continued in a pleasant voice, 'isn't that what's often taught in meditation? Not the absence of emotion, or swallowing them, but not allowing them to run the show?

Olivier looked at him blankly. But the Chief Inspector had seen that look before. It was, in fact, almost impossible to look blank. Unless the person wanted to. A blank face to the Chief Inspector meant a frantic mind.

There are three couplings,' said Myrna, herself leaning forward now, and whispering though she didn't know why. 'Attachment masquerades as Love, Pity as Compassion and Indifference as Equanimity.

Equanimity and indifference. I think that's the worst of the near enemies, the most corrosive. Equanimity is balance. When something overwhelming happens in our lives we feel it strongly but we also have an ability to overcome it.

When an untoward event occurs in your life, react to it without haste or passion.

Life is suffering. Until the great day of judgement, when peace and equanimity may be restored for those who are pure of heart and deed.

Accept the situation in which you find yourself and everything will be so much easier.

Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.

I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content.

No expectations, no disappointments.

Sometimes when we say I'm over it, we really mean I'm used to it.

Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.

What kind of lifehave you lived, little one, that everything seems to be a question of fair and unfair? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.

Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention.

Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity.

Live joyfully, without desire.

I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.