Equanimity Quotations

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 better, something different.

Sir, I view the proposal to hold an international exhibition at San Francisco with an equanimity bordering on indifference.

For the wise who seeks to attain yoga (of meditation or the equanimity of mind), Karma-yoga is said to be the means; for the one who has attained yoga, the equanimity becomes the means (of Self-Realization).

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Vipassana taught me how to maintain equanimity in all situations of life.

Detachment, non-fondness with son, wife, and home; unfailing equanimity upon attainment of the desirable and the undesirable; and / Unswerving devotion to Me by the yoga of exclusivity, love for solitude, distaste for social gossips; and / Steadfastness in knowledge of the Supreme Spirit, and the perception of (the omnipresent God as) the object of true knowledge is called knowledge; what is contrary to this is ignorance.

Anything that helps you maintain unruffled equanimity is right action.

Arjuna said: O Krishna, You have said that yoga of meditation is characterized by the equanimity (of mind), but, due to restlessness of mind I do not perceive the steady state of mind.

What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.