Jewish learning, she says, isn't about achieving tranquility.
However, when it came to their current well-being, they tended to emphasize the importance of a 'let go' or 'think less' attitude and adaptive coping responses towards life as the key to achieving tranquility of the mind [ 38].
Enforcing "quality of life" rules was touted as a way to achieve civic tranquility and prevent more serious crime.
To achieve such tranquility of mind he proposed the separation of (governmental) powers to retard the abuse of power that could so threaten the security of citizens.
Violating those demands will also normally bring on internal unease fear of discovery, pangs of conscience, and other disturbances making it difficult to achieve the tranquility that Smith takes to be a prime component of happiness (TMS 149).
The nurses' narratives tended to evolve around their efforts to help their patients achieve peace and tranquility.
Pinker marshals an impressive amount of data to demonstrate that human civilization has become steadily less violent, that the years since 1945 have been particularly pacific, and that contemporary Europe has achieved an unprecedented level of tranquility.
And tranquility was to be achieved not by chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.
The Israeli defence minister, Ehud Barak, vowed today to press on until Israel achieved its objective of "peace and tranquility" for residents in the south of the country, who are still enduring bombardment from Hamas rockets and mortar rounds.
Each of us strives to attain a "zen like" state and when are able to feel this level of tranquility, true abundance is achieved.
Through moves through the CIA, National Security Agency and Booz Allen Consulting in Geneva, Japan, Maryland and Hawaii, Mills suffers Snowden's professional disenchantments without realizing the dangers of his position... dramatic tension achieved at the cost of domestic tranquility.
