The Gift of Equanimity

The gift of equanimity is that when we're not hitching ourselves to the waves being a certain way, we actually get to to live with what sometimes is called a heart that's ready for everything. A friend has been doing some kind of drama work on his early childhood and is in an incredibly raw place. He keeps saying, oca sit down, be with it, feel it. And as he described it, he says, the place of feeling, where it feels most raw and painful, is the same place of loving. For our joy to be really vast and wide open, for our compassion to be truly viscerile and tender, we need that inner space of not