Quotes About Equanimity

Tout est question d'équilibre (Everything is a matter of balance):

As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you

Someone's might be ready, Someone's may not, Mine is not ready, But I have no issue.

Hold your moods so tight. Never let them to swing all over the place.

Lijuan warned Raphael I'd make him a little bit mortal.' 'You have.' Quiet equanimity. 'And you worry you've weakened him. You have.' Elena flinched. 'Elena.' Shaking his head, Keir waited until she met his gaze again. 'Even an archangel needs a weakness—absolute power is a corruption.

Shikataganai, desho

I count upon taking [the French people] by surprise. A bold deed upsets people's equanimity, and they are dumbfounded by a great novelty.

Beneath the quiet equanimity, the simmering obsessions.

Isn't that the greatest gift in the world-just not to care?

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.

Better to accept what you cannot change and learn to adapt than rail against the immutable and end up wasting time and effort.

Hild did what she always she did when she couldn't influence a thing; she stopped thinking about it.

Nothing ever goes wrong." (Tidak ada satu pun yang berjalan keliru)

To preserve openness of heart and calmness of mind, nurture these attitudes: Kindness to those who are happy Compassion for those who are less fortunate Honor for those who embody noble qualities Equanimity to those whose actions oppose your values

We come to understand the law of casuality - that is, we see that all beings are experiencing what they're experiencing based on their own actions and not by what we wish for them - and therefore we relax in a deep understanding and acceptance of the way things are.

Rather than reacting with our usual attachment or aversion, taking everything personally and feeling the need to do something about it, we relax into the experience, seeing it clearly and letting it be as it is.

The next step in the process of liberation is to break this chain reaction of suffering whenever life is unpleasant and feeling content only when life is pleasurable.

You can't worry about what you can't control,

the secret of wisdom is detachment without withdrawal.

Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind, rooted in insight. But in its perfection and unshakable nature equanimity is not dull, heartless and frigid. Its perfection is not due to an emotional "emptiness", but to a "fullness" of understanding, to its being complete in itself. Its unshakable nature is not the immovability of a dead, cold stone, but the manifestation of the highest strength.

If you can do something to change the circumstances, why be upset about it? And if you cannot do anything to change the circumstances, why be upset about it?

Why hate, and struggle, and fight? Let is be as it would.

Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes.