What is serenity? It isn't so easy to define a feeling. But serenity is also a feeling and mind-state. I rather like the folowing descriptor:
"Serenity is the ability to accept pleasant and unpleasant feelings;
to know what you feel and to accept it even if
that feeling is uncomfortable."
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Combine that with the following two little gems:
“Pain is what I walk through.
Misery is what I sit in.”
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"Serenity isn’t freedom from the storm;
It is peace within the storm."
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Then, there's the perspective from the well-known Serenity Prayer, usually attributed to the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr:
"God, grant me the serenity to
Accept the things I cannot change, the
Courage to change the things I can, and the
Wisdom to know the difference."
Can you relate to this, not so much intellectually, but as a feeling and mind-state?
Have any serenity gems of your own to share?