Quotes About Equanimity

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it

Nothing to say, nothing to prove, nothing to gain and nothing to lose.

Contentment is the main attitude for happiness.

Half of being happy is being happy with what you've got, the other half is being happy no matter what.

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

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

Accepting and being contented for whatever situation you have right now is the best way to achieve happiness and make your life less complicated.

0:09 / 0:09 "If I have learned one thing in my life, it is this — just go with it. If you relax, it doesn't hurt as much," Madonna ( she said as childhood pictures of Rocco were shown in the background.)

Men who never get carried away should be.

You must nourish the body with healthy food, the heart with joy, compassion and love, the mind with knowledge and the spirit with equanimity and self-awareness. . . . If you fill yourself with other kinds of satisfaction, food will no longer be a problem.

I wondered why it is that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death than others.

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking. It's akin to letting your palm open to unhand something you have been holding on to.

A willingness to embrace and work with what is lies at the core of all meditation practice.

we are simply inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.

The challenge for mindfulness is to be present for your experience as it is rather than immediately jumping in to change it or try to force it to be different.

whatever thoughts and emotions arise, and as best you can without taking any of it personally, as if the thoughts were merely sounds, or weather patterns in the mind.

no place to go, nothing to do, nothing to attain.

We are not meditating to make anything go away, any more than we are meditating to attain some special state or feeling. Whether we are basically healthy at the moment or have a terminal illness, none of us knows how long we have to live.

It's not a matter of letting go—you would if you could. Instead of Let it go, we should probably say Let it be.

Non-doing simply means letting things be and allowing them to unfold in their own way.

know that things unfold according to their own nature. We can remember to let our lives unfold in the same way. We don't have to let our anxieties and our desire for certain results dominate the quality of the moment, even when things are painful. When we have to push, we push. When we have to pull, we pull. But we know when not to push too, and when not to pull.

The challenge of mindfulness is to be present for your experience as it is rather than immediately jumping in to change it or try to force it to be different.

If you are mindful as emotional storms occur, perhaps you will see in yourself an unwillingness to accept things as they already are, whether you like them or not. Perhaps that part of you that does see this has, in one way or another, already come to terms with what has happened or with your situation. Perhaps, at the same time, it recognizes that your feelings still need to play themselves out, that they are not ready to accept the situation or to calm down, and that this too is all right.