“It is known as Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) when equanimity (samata) prevails in adverse conditions.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“To others, I am as they perceive me, and they address me based on their preferences. I have no objection to people's… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“It is considered equanimity when attachment does not arise towards someone who offers flowers and abhorrence does not arise towards someone who… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The proper method of playing mixed doubles is to swipe the ball accidentally and straight at the woman opponent as hard and… — Art Hoppe Copy Share Image
Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of… — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
“- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“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
Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in… — Longchenpa Copy Share Image
She had taken him for granted, she thought with surprise and shame, watching the flickering candlelight. She had assumed his kindness was… — Cassandra Clare 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
“It is true that philosophy is quite aware of the Buddhistic picture of life, of the sorrows and sicknesses which drag him… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
How did I gain from not remembering my earthly self? It allowed me to go deep into realms beyond the worldly without… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
Isn't this the perfect image of the noblest selflessness, and thereby presents an example and a model? It should be inspiring: like… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying,… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
When you know that everything happens for the best, then everything that happens is okay with you. The irony of this is… — Neale Donald Walsch 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
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
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
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love,… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a… — Anonymous 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
“Equanimity is when abhorrence does not arise during the circumstances of abhorrence and attachment does arise during the circumstances of attachment.” — Dada Bhagwan 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
Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or… — Edward Hoagland 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
“One’s happiness is in one’s equanimity. Equanimity means the scale of One's Self [real] does not rise up and the scale of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
When we struggle agains our energy we reject the source of wisdom. Anger without the fixation is none other than clear-seeing wisdom.… — Pema Chodron 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 practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great… — Samuel Butler 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