Sentences with phrase «own equanimity»

Life has its ups and downs, and you need to have the mental strength to deal with them with some equanimity.

He then surprise released two new specials, «Equanimity» and «The Bird Revelation,» on December 31.

Clouds on the economic horizon, for example, are regarded with equanimity: «Recession?»

This means that leaders — particularly executives — need to model equanimity and to be a source of composed reassurance and confidence.

The values included things like healthy work - life balance, inclusiveness, embracing mindfulness and equanimity, taking responsibility, and always communicating openly and honestly.

Privately two views were expressed as to how some kind of equanimity might be achieved: The first would be a more coordinated approach to negotiation; the second that the platforms» own competition will prove fruitful for news organizations.

And I've also found that it's helped a lot of other people a lot, because it gives them a calmness and an equanimity and almost a detachment from the ego thing so that when you come at it, you say, «Oh, is that what it is?»

The committee members likely hope the new rules are greeted with equanimity by all the leadership hopefuls and their contribution passes unnoticed.

Instead of constantly trying to guess which direction the next 10 - 20 % move in the market will be, investors would be better served by accepting losses with equanimity and having a plan in place to deal with the inevitable drawdowns.

You are motivated, looking for impeccability and vision in your leadership, mastery of self, integrated intelligence (rational, emotional, relational), greater clarity, focus and equanimity in the midst of a demanding world.

Many have argued that conservatism is a distinctly modern outlook, born of an uprooted consciousness and a disturbed equanimity.

That hardly seems compatible with the many Indian descriptions of the bliss of brahman as tranquility, integration, and equanimity.

(Who among us could bear with equanimity the experience of watching our greatest friend publicly executed on Friday and then of seeing and hearing him alive and well on the following Sunday?)

If humility means coming to know the truth about yourself, with equanimity, Richard moved deeper and deeper into it.

Yet things seem to be going along with remarkable equanimity just now, even with the gospel being spread around the world and growth becoming the normal condition.

Admittedly, a few tough - minded souls — usually academics — were able to face their own extinction with equanimity, knowing full well that the traces they left in the culture would be erased within a generation or two at best.

It should not be overlooked that both the trinitarian and christological decisions of this period, decisions that have to do with the most foundational aspects of the Christian faith and have been accepted in subsequent ages with astonishing equanimity, were decisions undertaken by the church under the aegis of Empire.

Compared with the complex ecstasies which the supernaturally regenerated Christian may enjoy, or the oriental pantheist indulge in, their receipts for equanimity are expedients which seem almost crude in their simplicity.

Good sportsmen take both gains and losses with equanimity, as part of the game.

Human personality and culture are inherently about the denial of death, about helping the human animal achieve day - to - day equanimity in the face of our existential burden and helping us manage our instinct for self - preservation in the face of a cognitive awareness that we are bound for death, that we can not run away or escape our fate.

Jews are thus especially puzzled that depictions of the Crucifixion story would point to anyone other than the person who wielded all the power and executed people with equanimity.

Said the great Hindu sage, Manu, He who in his own soul perceives the Supreme Soul in all beings, and acquires equanimity toward them all, attains the highest bliss.

Such chemical therapies have demonstrated potential for enabling many people to function with increased emotional equanimity.

Hence his long progress from worthless rogue to champion of the passions to psychological cliché to obsolescence perfectly symbolizes the transition from the premodern to the postmodern cultural imagination, moral and aesthetic: from faith to disenchantment to resigned equanimity.

Most of the congregation accepted their willow wands with equanimity, but there were a few older women, led by Mrs Dealey, who disdained the willows and held out for palms.

And more modest economic performance could be accepted with equanimity if social equality or environmental quality were enhanced.

But no one who cares about this pontificate and the integrity of the Church's ministry can contemplate with equanimity the consequences of a Truce of 2005.

Fears and anxieties go, and blissful equanimity takes their place.

We can accept with some degree of equanimity those chains of events that intersect to our disadvantage.

The transition from tenseness, self - responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of the personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

We no longer think that we are called on to face physical pain with equanimity.

... humbleness, Uprightness, heed to injure naught which lives; Truthfulness, slowness to wrath, a mind That lightly letteth go what others prize, Equanimity and charity Which spieth no man's faults; and tenderness Towards all that suffer;... a bearing mild, Modest and grave; with manhood nobly mixed; With patience, fortitude, and purity; An unrevengeful spirit, never given To rate itself too high — such be the signs Of him whose feet are set on the fair path which leads to heavenly birth.

Unlike those who remain angry and depressed, «patients who are in the stage of acceptance show a very outstanding feeling of equanimity and peace.

And, she adds, «It is very unlikely that he will be cheerful and that he will accept his own dying with a smile on his face and a sense of equanimity.»

She is able to declare that «I now do believe in a life after death, beyond a shadow of a doubt,» and she suggests that «truly religious people with a deep abiding relationship with God have found it much easier to face death with equanimity.»

And yet the Japanese will play to a draw with equanimity, content at the last simply to let go, so that all forces can reach equilibrium, and I do not believe their version of the game is necessarily any less elegant or profound than ours.

The pressure to maintain composure, equanimity, poise, certainty and conviction is crushing pastors.

This is the context within which St. Albert the Great discovered in his pupil Thomas a rare equanimity of spirit and a fearless intellect, and saw in this tall, large - framed lad, regarded by his fellow students as a speechless ox, «an ox whose bellows will be heard around the world.»

If one be really unattached to the fruits of action, one may mix in the world with equanimity.

In like manner he radiates his compassion, joy, and holy equanimity throughout the entire cosmos.

While all of this is very true in logic and in theory the event of its practical realization in any state or country is so remote in time and in probability that no practical man will let it disturb his equanimity or affect his attitude toward those who differ from him in religious faith.

This «engaged equanimity» must be cultivated within the context of this series of meditations, or there is a risk of it manifesting as its near enemy, indifference or aloofness.

This series of meditations comes to maturity as «on - looking equanimity».

To put it into its context, Loving - kindness is the first of a series of meditations that produce four qualities of love: Friendliness (metta), Compassion (karuna), Appreciative Joy (mudita) and Equanimity (upekkha).

So when one's affections keep in touch with the divinity of the world's authorship, fear and egotism fall away; and in the equanimity that follows, one finds in the hours, as they succeed each other.

He handled all our questions and comments with great patience and equanimity!

After less than a season of Class A ball at Modesto, Calif., Reggie went on to Double A Birmingham at a time when black players were housed separately from white players, an injustice that Reggie took with quiet equanimity.

His equanimity had a soothing effect on his teammates.

And by doing so, preserve your own equanimity in the face of the horrors to come.

He is a quiet man who withstands coaching pressures with rare equanimity.