[suh-ren-i-tee] n. 1. The state of being calm, peaceful, or untroubled. 2. I am wanting the touch of a man, but I am needing the hand of God. / I am hungry for flesh and fur coats, yet I nibble on the leavesand legumes of mercy, / I wear cotton in the cold, now / it seems hot. / I leave the house, / I sweat like a pig in heat. / You find tranquility when you say hello to pain, and goodbye to, / desire: / sex, food, comfort, / I was attached to the feelings I got from you, / orgasm, bacon flavored cupcakes, perfect room temperature. / I was afraid of the suffering of reality, / I was afraid to let you go, temporary gratification, / I was afraid to seek truth. 3. Detaching from the expectations that arise when we think we know the order of things. / I do goodness in the world, / I will get goodness back. / I treat people with love, / I will receive love back. / Serenity, you come when I finally say, / “I will be good to be good, / I will give love because I am love. / The fruits of my action I do yield, / I do not do action because of the result from actions, / I do action in hope.” / Hope that God will hear my sacrifice, / I run one hundred miles and expect to go nowhere. 4. I do not tell people what I believe. / If they ask, then I speak. / I tell them a story I once heard. / A woman takes her young daughter to the movie theatre, / on the screen, / a man starts to kill a duckling, / the child runs up to the screen and tries to stop the man, / she bangs on the surface of the projection, / the child hurts her hand, / the mother is hurt by this too, / her daughter is sobbing, / the daughter does not know why she cannot stop the man, / but she cannot. / We do not understand where our pain originates, / in trying to stop it, / we hurt ourselves, / we hurt the ones we love. / we go away from peace.

 

Synonyms: kindness, allowing, gentleness 

 

Antonyms: denial, conformity, pride