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George Weigel is a prominent Catholic political and social author who serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.In his book Tranquillitas Ordinis: The Present Failure and Future Promise of American Catholic Thought on War and Peace, published in 1987, Weigel defines tranquillitas ordinis as the peace of "dynamic and rightly ordered political community" and ...
The Hay Wain by John Constable (1821). Tranquillity (also spelled tranquility) is the quality or state of being tranquil; that is, calm, serene, and worry-free.The word tranquillity appears in numerous texts ranging from the religious writings of Buddhism—where the term passaddhi refers to tranquillity of the body, thoughts, and consciousness on the path to enlightenment—to an assortment ...
Sakina is the spirit of tranquility, or peace of reassurance. It is a derivative of the original word "Sakina" which is mentioned in the Qur'an as having descended upon the Islamic Prophet (Arabic: نَـبِي, nabi) Muhammad and the believers as they made an unarmed pilgrimage to Mecca, and were faced with an opposing military force of the Quraysh, with whom Muhammad struck the Treaty of ...
The Anglo-French term pes itself comes from the Latin pax, meaning "peace, compact, agreement, treaty of peace, tranquility, absence of hostility, harmony." The English word came into use in various personal greetings from c. 1300 as a translation of the Hebrew word shalom , which, according to Jewish theology, comes from a Hebrew verb meaning ...
Calmness is the mental state of peace of mind, being free from agitation, excitement, or disturbance. [1] It also refers to being in a state of serenity, tranquillity, or peace. [2] Calmness can most easily occur for the average person during relaxation, but it can also be found during much more alert and aware states. [3]
passaddhi ("tranquility" or "serenity" or "calm") sukho ("happiness" or "pleasure"). By establishing mindfulness, one overcomes the Five Hindrances ( pañca nīvaraṇi ), gives rise to gladness, rapture, pleasure and tranquillizes the body ( kāyo passambhati ); such bodily tranquillity ( passaddhakāyo ) leads to higher states of ...
For the earliest Romans, "pax" meant to live in a state of agreement, where discord and war were absent. In his Meditations, or To Himself, the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius expresses peace as a state of unperturbed tranquility. The English word "peace" derives ultimately from its root, the Latin "pax".
Inner peace: (or peace of mind) A colloquialism that refers to a state of being mentally or spiritually at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress. Being "at peace" is considered by many to be healthy (homeostasis) and the opposite of being stressed