Equanimity Quotes - Page 5

• Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

  Samuel Butler

  Failure, Adversity, Men

  'The Way of All Flesh' (1903) ch. 5

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• I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help them cope with things that seem unmanageable and to cope with something like death, if they're able to maintain that practice and maintain the equanimity at the time of death whether it's, you know, that person's or that person's loved one.

  Laurie Anderson

  Spiritual, Practice, People

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

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• Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.

  Satish Kumar

  Spiritual, Yoga, Practice

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• Isn't this the perfect image of the noblest selflessness, and thereby presents an example and a model? It should be inspiring: like them, we are the units of a great social body, like them, we can serve and contemplate death with equanimity, subordinating our individual consciousness to collective consciousness.

  Leo Errera

  Sacrifice, Perfect, Example

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

  Sarah MacLean

  Kindness, Compassion, Practice

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• I believe Stoicism can help anyone who takes it seriously and begins to practice it. It will help them flourish because it will provide them with a compass for navigating life, a general, flexible, framework to set priorities, and a set of techniques to achieve serenity and equanimity.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Believe, Priorities, Serenity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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