We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even a fiercer life because of our quiet. • William Butler Yeats

Today we talked about equanimity, what Tara Brach calls “the heart that can be with everything.”  Others have described it as the ability “to see with patience,” or the ability “to stand in the middle of all this.” The mindful cultivation of equilibrium allows us to respond more skillfully to whatever life brings us.

Jack Kornfield offers a short meditation on mindfulness here.

Read “Equanimity: A Practice for Troubled Times” in Psychology Today.