poise

102:2.3It is dif­fi­cult to iden­tify and an­a­lyze the fac­tors of a re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence, but it is not dif­fi­cult to ob­serve that such re­li­gious prac­ti­tion­ers live and carry on as if al­ready in the pres­ence of the Eter­nal. Be­liev­ers re­act to this tem­po­ral life as if im­mor­tal­ity al­ready were within their grasp. In the lives of such mor­tals there is a valid orig­i­nal­ity and a spon­tane­ity of ex­pres­sion that for­ever seg­re­gate them from those of their fel­lows who have im­bibed only the wis­dom of the world. Re­li­gion­ists seem to live in ef­fec­tive eman­ci­pa­tion from har­ry­ing haste and the painful stress of the vi­cis­si­tudes in­her­ent in the tem­po­ral cur­rents of time; they ex­hibit a sta­bi­liza­tion of per­son­al­ity and a tran­quil­lity of char­ac­ter not ex­plained by the laws of phys­i­ol­ogy, psy­chol­ogy, and so­ci­ol­ogy.

101:3.84. Ex­hibits in­ex­pli­ca­ble poise and sus­tain­ing tran­quil­lity not­with­stand­ing baf­fling dis­eases and even acute phys­i­cal suf­fer­ing.

101:3.95. Main­tains a mys­te­ri­ous poise and com­po­sure of per­son­al­ity in the face of mal­treat­ment and the rank­est in­jus­tice.