Equanimity Quotes

“It is called equanimity when one has no attachment with the good (the auspicious) and no abhorrence for the bad (the inauspicious). The one without duality is in equanimity-state. In worldly interactions, people identify tolerance as equanimity!”

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

“Equanimity can be hard to talk about.”

“Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).”

“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]”

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

“Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) and one does not do attachment at the time of attachment (generating incidents).”

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

“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.”

“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 opin”