“Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but… — Laozi Copy Share Image
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people in abusive situations think they’re responsible for the other person’s happiness or that they’re going to fix them and make… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Emphasising what's in your control allows you to adopt an attitude of equanimity toward luck. You've done what you can, and from… — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is a way to rebalance ourselves. Instead of being lost in thought, or caught up in emotional upheaval, we can tip… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Every day I strive to get to a place where I'm not effected by the external world, and I don't use the… — Laurel Holloman Copy Share Image
Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life. — William Osler Copy Share Image
The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner… — William James Copy Share Image
When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Where there is no attachment for the good and abhorrence for the bad is called the state of equanimity. The one without… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the… — Rahul Dravid Copy Share Image
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
