To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.

Pema Chödron
from the book The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
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Further quotes from the book The Places That Scare You:
- At least until you die
- Everyday uncertainty
- The anxiety of opening
- Being inspired by everyday good fortune
- The first mark of existence
- Forgive into freshness
- Compassion takes courage
- A flexible identity
- Threefold purity
- Our true nature and condition
- Awakening our unlimited potential
- Happiness
- Dissolving our self-importance
- The essence of generosity
- Cultivating equanimity
- Doing all with one intention
- Stay!
- Whatever we encounter
- Dissolving our fear