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		<description><![CDATA[Enough of my busy worried mind and unnecessary thoughts. I tire of them. I seek equanimity. –noun mental or emotional stability or composure, esp. under tension or strain; calmness; equilibrium. Origin: 1600–10; < L aequanimitās, equiv. to aequ(us) even, plain, equal + anim(us) mind, spirit, feelings + -itās -ity Random House Dictionary, © Random House, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://jantimmons.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/yellow-leaves-400px_JAN90151.jpg" alt="yellow-leaves-400px_JAN9015" title="yellow leaves photo by Jan Timmons_JAN9015" width="400" height="242" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1518" /> Enough of my busy worried mind and unnecessary thoughts. I tire of them. </p>
<p>I seek <strong>equanimity</strong>.<br />
<em>–noun</em><br />
mental or emotional stability or composure, esp. under tension or strain; calmness; equilibrium.<br />
Origin:<br />
1600–10; < L<em> aequanimitās,</em> equiv. to aequ(us) even, plain, equal + anim(us) mind, spirit, feelings + <em>-itās</em> -ity<br />
Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009 </p>
<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Equanimity</strong> describes the unattached awareness of one&#8217;s experience as a result of perceiving the impermanence of momentary reality. It is a peace of mind and abiding calmness that cannot be shaken by any grade of both fortunate circumstance and unfortunate one. It is a concept promoted by several major religious groups.&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equanimity" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Although Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney named his champion thoroughbred racehorse &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equipoise_%28horse%29" target="_blank">Equipoise</a>&#8221; early in the 20th century, <em>equipoise</em> also relates somewhat to the word <em>equanimity</em>.<br />
<strong>equipoise</strong>.<br />
<em>-noun</em><br />
1. Equality in distribution, as of weight, relationship, or emotional forces; equilibrium.<br />
2. A counterpoise; a counterbalance.<br />
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000</p>
<p>&#8220;Several of the poems in “Operas and Arias” and “Songs of Self” focus on characters at a moment of equipoise before or at a point of a major decision or traumatic event.&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_from_Words" target="blank">Music from Words</a></p>
<p><strong>meditative equipoise</strong> is described as an undistracted state of mind achieved through various methods of meditation. Apparently some can achieve total absorption, which, according to a glossary of Buddhist terms archived by <a href="http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/index.html" target="_blank">Alexander Berzin</a>, means a state of mind in which absorbed concentration is focused single-pointedly on a void.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment”   ~ Albert Einstein</p></blockquote>
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