Ataraxia

Tranquility, contentedness, freedom from fear or disturbance according to Epicurus.  This is the kind of attitude we would imagine would be held by Epictitus or a modern day Stoic.  I recall a Quaker friend, a leader in the Friends social movement who, having lost an important initiative on behalf of a desperately poor group of citizens, remarked quietly that we should now see what we have learned from this. Ataraxia. Cool Hand Luke.

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