79 Quotes About Equanimity

He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.

If you play a game where scrap pieces of glass are at stake, you will play skillfully. If your expensive belt buckle is at stake, you'll start to get clumsy. If it's your money that's at stake, you'll fumble. It's not that you've lost your skill. It's because you are so flustered by things happening outside that you've lost your calmness inside. Lose your stillness and you will fail in everything you do.

Some may be inspired to respectfully adorn the body of a bodhisattva with sandalwood powder, while others may prefer to throw lava on the bodhisattva's head, yet both affect the bodhisattva equally. May the mind of equanimity be developed.—Prajñāpāramitāsañcayagāthā (Gathering of Precious Qualities)

Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).

Surrender creates equanimity and bliss because you release yourself from any attachment to the results.

Equanimity is the keel that keeps you stable in the stormy ocean of life.

When you have to do what you don't like, train your mind to be non-complaining. You suffer only when you complain and when you wish your Life is different from what it is now. Of course, this situation arises only when you have not exercised, or can’t exercise, your choice of not doing what you don't like to do.

To Priests, Soldiers, Judges- to men who rear, lead or govern men I dedicate these pages of murder and blood.

One is to cross this ocean in the form of obstinacy. We are standing on this side of obstinacy and we have to go to the other side. If someone becomes instrumental in removing your obstinacy; do not be disturbed about it, consider him to be extremely beneficial and undergo that experience with equanimity.