Theme of Zoom Meeting

Theme of Zoom Meeting: Tranquility

Questions:
For several questions, I have provided underlined links that will take you to related online information. I restricted my search to .edu sites – those related to colleges and universities. Try coming up with your own thoughts first – then investigate the links or ignore them – whatever you wish.

1. Before checking out the dictionary, give your meaning of tranquility

2. Jake says he’d rather have a tranquil mind focused on the present moment rather than one that is always darting around in the past or jumping into the future. Why do you agree or disagree with Jake.

3. How can a person achieve tranquility? Is it a desirable state of mind, one that you would be glad to have in abundance?

4. Can tranquility lead to better physical health? What health problems might it help to improve?

5. Can your breathing patterns affect your feelings of tranquility? Another link.

6. How can parents help children grow into tranquil adults?

7. What do you need to have to maintain tranquility?

8. How about listening to music? Another music link.

9. If exercise can help lessen worry, what kinds of safe exercises can you do if you are restricted to your home or even a small apartment for days at a time?

10. What state would you like your mind to be in most of the time? If not tranquil, what is another word describing how you would like your mind to be?

11. Compare your mind to the ocean: Is it calm, with only gentle waves or more like a tidal wave?

12. Describe what you think someone would be like if she were the personification of tranquility? Would you like to have her as a friend? An employee? A mate?

13. How might you still hold onto tranquility when your life is plagued with serious problems, including health issues and pandemic restrictions?

14. During this present pandemic, how could all of us but especially health care workers possibly experience tranquility?

15. Would you consider it a plus or a negative for a political candidate to mirror tranquility? Can a nation ever approach tranquility when its leaders nourish anxiety?

Quotations

1. “Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

2. “Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances in which we live, we are drawn into a whirlpool of thoughts and can have neither peace nor tranquility.”
― Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

3. “Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.”
― Sebastian Horsley

4. “Tranquility is a choice. So is anxiety. The entire world around us may be in turmoil. But if we want to be peaceful within. We can.” Anonymous

5. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. ~James Allen

6. “The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.” – Swami Rama

7. You can't calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.--Timber Hawkeye

8. For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquility of mind, while we live here; because Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Fear, no more than without Sense.—Thomas Hobbes

9. “The fruit of silence is tranquility.”- Arabian Proverb

10. “Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.”—Gautama Buddha