The Equanimous Mind Quotes

“An anxious person makes others anxious”
― Manish Chopra, The Equanimous Mind

“Responding to cravings and aversions leads to negative emotions
This is the most fundamental principle underpinning our existence. As soon as we decide to fulfill some desire (either to want something or to try and get rid of something), we get fixated on wanting to see things happen a certain (our) way. In order to do that, we generate some emotion that is rooted in an expectation to achieve a certain outcome.
As an example, even to swat a fly or mosquito”
― Manish Chopra, The Equanimous Mind

“Frankl writes that what kept him alive when others around him (including close family members) were succumbing to their situation was that he never gave up hope that he would make it out alive. The only way I could imagine he kept his hope genuinely alive and not faking it with wishful thinking was through knowing at a deep and fundamental level that unless with some brutality his tormentors took his life, whatever emotional and physical agony they were inflicting on him would only hurt him deep down into his consciousness if his mind gave permission to accept the pain being caused as a negative sensation, and by wanting it to go away.”
― Manish Chopra, The Equanimous Mind

“working against this natural law to hold on to the things that we cherish and run away from the things that we dislike. Both are impermanent and our conscious mind might even understand this virtue of transience (if conditioned to do so), but the unconscious mind continues to lead us with its inherently mischievous and restless ways, which are further fuelled by our self-created and magnified sense of ego.
In general,”
― Manish Chopra, The Equanimous Mind

“5. "I will steer clear of actions, words and a value system that is driven from a desire to `fit in' to a world that is extrinsically defined."
As these bold life”
― Manish Chopra, The Equanimous Mind

“had been operating.
1. "I will lead with empathy and kindness, and not by motivating people through creating a sense of accountability and a fear of failure."
2. "I will make peace with and apologise to those I have wronged or offended in my life."
3. "I will forgive all those who have caused me any hurt." My heart was filling up with empathy for them the more I discovered my own unbecomings.
4. "I will show myself more empathy, stop apologising for being myself and continue to do what I believe is right with an even stronger sense of purpose.”
― Manish Chopra, The Equanimous Mind

“painful road to potential salvation.”
― Manish Chopra, The Equanimous Mind