True Inner Peace

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readMay 23, 2023

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Question from the Internet:

“How do you cultivate a true sense of inner peace and tranquility?”

I think that in order to answer this question, we also have to ask if it is possible to exist individually, in isolation from others.

Can I cultivate a personal inner peace and transquility if others – close or far – are not in a state of “inner peace and tranquility?”

When we look at the world, especially when we study history, nature’s system and the laws of nature that govern and sustain the general balance and homeostasis life depends on, we see that we are not “standalone”, separated individuals. Instead, we are all mutually integrated parts of the same system. We are all like individual cells of the same living organism, humanity, which humanity is also an integral part in nature.

So is it possible to cultivate individual inner peace and tranquility while the rest of the people and nature is in turmoil? Can I actually escape into nature, to the top of a mountain or even just into a meditation room and achieve true and lasting inner peace and tranquility when I am an integral part of a much larger, all-encompassing system?

Since we are all individual cells and elements of a single living system, we need to take example from similar, integrated natural living system about “happiness, peave and tranquility.”

These states in nature – and even in our own biological body – are called as balance, harmony and homeostasis.

We can achieve inner peace and tranquility, we can build peace in the world only, when we are all doing it together, when we are all more concerned about the “inner peace and tranquility” of others than we are concerned about ourselves.

True “inner peace and tranquility” is the result of a nature-like, finely balanced and mutually integrated existence wher we all actively and consciously become 100% responsible for one another in a true state of “mutual guarantee, where the principle of “one for all and all for one” becomes our practical reality.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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