"Be not uneasy, discouraged, or out of humour, because practice falls short of precept in... particulars. If you happe…"

"Remember that the term Rational was intended to signify a discriminating attention to every several thing and freedom…"

"I perform, sir, the rite of equanimity. I abandon all bad activity for the course of my life, threefold by threefold,…"

"[M]an cuts out for himself a manageable world: he throws himself into action uncritically, unthinkingly. He accepts t…"

"Unless plutocracy can persuade the majority of the people to close up the public schools and make illiterates of the …"

"Vermont sort of demands humility and equanimity. No one really cares if you’re fancy or high achieving, and if you le…"

"By letting go of happiness and unhappiness, as a result of the earlier disappearance of pleasure and pain, I lived ha…"

"When a monk abides [in equanimity], if his mind inclines to talking, he resolves: ‘Such talk as is low, vulgar, coars…"

"Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great p…"

"[W]hen a Westerner discusses, say, Hindu-ism or Buddhism, he is always conscious of the fundamental differences betwe…"