Quotes of: Equanimity Keyword

A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler or LeMay or othe...

Noam Chomsky

Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle.

Amit Ray

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

Noam Chomsky

The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

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 take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Jung

The Happiest Man in The World The French interpreter for the 14th Dalai Lama, former academic and dedicated meditator Matthieu Ricard, came into the spotlight in the field of neural science after being named “the happiest man in the world”. Natur...

Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

Goldie Hawn

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions." ( , 1953)

Albert Einstein

Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity. [Trans. Purohit Swami]

The Bhagavad Gita

A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

Dani Shapiro

There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the firs...

Amit Ray

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something...

Gary Hamel

You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbin...

The Bhagavad Gita