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?