“If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgement about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgement now.”
“Mindfulness is so closely linked with equanimity because it directly teaches you to take the middle path — to not resist or cling to things, and to not just let things happen to you willy-nilly. You quite literally train yourself to notice and reflect before responding, and as a result, your behaviours become reasoned, conscious responses.”