Quotes About Equanimity

Al contrario, se trata de alcanzar lo que los estoicos llaman apatheia que, a pesar del eco obvio y poco atractivo que despierta, hemos visto que significa tranquilidad mental, y también ecuanimidad hacia todo lo que la vida nos ponga en el camino.

One of the key tenets of Stoicism is that we ought to recognize, and take seriously, the difference between what we can and cannot master.

Don't worry about things you can't control.

We must also cultivate courageous energy: the commitment to remain present with whatever arises to consciousness, without grasping or resisting anything that comes to the fore of the mind.

is no breach of the law of meekness to show our displeasure at the wickedness of the wicked.

The reason is that for so many years he has been developing a deep reserve of internal calm, so deep that the external unrest cannot disturb it. Interior calm gives birth to calm action.

When you see a great black cloud in a stormy sky, it seems so solid that you could sit on it. But when you approach it, there's nothing to grab on to; it is only vapor and wind. The experience of anger is like having a high fever. It is a temporary condition, and you do not need to identify with it. The more you look at anger in this manner, the more it evaporates under your gaze, like white frost under the sun's rays.

Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure than he is inflated by success.

we don't need to train our minds to improve our ability to get upset or jealous.

A izgledao sam miran. Na to se ?ovjek navikne.

Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!

Peace of mind! All we need is peace of mind!

Run into peace.

She wanted something she didn't have words for- peace, numbness, something.

A melhor maneira de fugir é ficar parado.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

Daylight had not brought a solution, but it had accorded indifference. Having

He didn't lead anyone on, or make any promises. Instead he conveyed a sense of calm and equanimity, like a man who had banished from his life all superfluous sentiment, all longings and all patience for the nonessential. He was like Yoda, Buddha and the Gladiator all rolled into one.

En una palabra, debemos alcanzar la libertad de la indiferencia, condición que hace posible la perfecta serenidad.

If we have been pleased with life ,we should not be displeased with death since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

Devórate! El que devora goza, pero no se harta de recordar el acabamiento de sus goces y se hace pesimista; el que es devorado sufre, y no se harta de esperar la liberación de sus penas y se hace optimista. Devórate a ti mismo, y como el placer de devorarte se confundirá y neutralizará con el dolor de ser devorado, llegarás a la perfecta ecuanimidad de espíritu, a la ataraxia; no serás sino un mero espectáculo para ti mismo.

You are the sky. Everything else–it's just the weather. PEMA CHÖDRÖN, BUDDHIST