Equanimity is not stillness – it is a mobility of the mind | Psyche Ideas

You can be with, watch, and take interest in the thing instead of immediately reacting to it. You also develop compassion for yourself and for others, realizing how hard it can be to maintain a measure of equanimity amidst the torrent of thoughts, feelings, and urges that occur during just fifteen minutes of formal meditation, let alone a decades-l

Equanimity is the state in which you can remain in control of yourself and be perfectly composed no matter what is happening around you. A lesser state than equanimity is compassion, which itself has value. A lesser state than that is empathy, which has value as well.