Inner peace
Overview
 
Inner peace refers to a state of being mentally
Mind
The concept of mind is understood in many different ways by many different traditions, ranging from panpsychism and animism to traditional and organized religious views, as well as secular and materialist philosophies. Most agree that minds are constituted by conscious experience and intelligent...

 and spiritually
Spirituality
Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality; an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being; or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live.” Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop...

 at peace
Peace
Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the...

, with enough knowledge
Knowledge
Knowledge is a familiarity with someone or something unknown, which can include information, facts, descriptions, or skills acquired through experience or education. It can refer to the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject...

 and understanding
Understanding
Understanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object....

 to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress
Stress (medicine)
Stress is a term in psychology and biology, borrowed from physics and engineering and first used in the biological context in the 1930s, which has in more recent decades become commonly used in popular parlance...

. Being "at peace" is considered by many to be healthy (homeostasis
Homeostasis
Homeostasis is the property of a system that regulates its internal environment and tends to maintain a stable, constant condition of properties like temperature or pH...

) and the opposite of being stressed or anxious. Peace of mind is generally associated with bliss, happiness
Happiness
Happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources....

 and contentment
Contentment
"Contentment" seems realistically defined as "enjoyment of whatever may be desired". That definition is realistic because the more contented an individual or community becomes the less extreme so more acceptable their desires will be...

.

Peace of mind, serenity, and calmness
Calmness
Calmness is the mental state of being free from agitation, excitement, or disturbance. Calmness can most easily occur for the average person during a state of relaxation, but it can also be found during much more alert and aware states. Some people find that focusing the mind on something external,...

 are descriptions of a disposition free from the effects of stress.
Quotations

Buddhism ~ This is peace, this is the excellent, namely the calm of all the impulses, the casting out of all basis, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping, Nirvana. Anguttara Nikaya v.322

Christianity ~ Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Bible|The Bible, John 14.27

Confucianism ~ The Master said, "In the morning, hear the Way; in the evening, die content!", Analects 4.8

Hinduism ~ As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense-world into the sea of peace that is the sage. Bhagavad Gita 2.70

Islam ~ In the remembrance of God do hearts find satisfaction. Qur'an 13.28

Judaism ~ May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace. The Bible, Numbers 6.26

Sikhism ~ If a man sings of God and hears of Him,| And lets love of God sprout within him,| All his sorrows shall vanish,| And in his mind, God will bestow abiding peace. Adi Granth, Japuji 5, M.1, p. 2

Taoism ~ Men do not mirror themselves in running water, they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things. Chuang Tzu 5 Category:Virtues he:שלוות נפש

 
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