15 quotes found
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
“The true philosopher is a man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his armchair.”
“Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists between two people.”
“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]”
“Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity.”
“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 no...”
“Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).”
“A person must be in tune with the light and dark forces of their nature and remain in harmony with the bands of their own multivariate being.”
“I sometimes marvel at how far Ive come - blissful, even, in the knowledge that I am slowly becoming a well-evolved human being - only to have the illusion shattered by an episode of bad behaviour t...”
“You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Lea...”
“I sometimes marvel at how far I’ve come - blissful, even, in the knowledge that I am slowly becoming a well-evolved human being - only to have the illusion shattered by an episode of bad behaviour ...”
