It is necessary to accept “God’s will” when evil enters into our destiny and cannot possibly be avoided; indeed, the partially paradoxical nature of All-Possibility requires of man an attitude of conformity to this situation, namely the quality of serenity, of which the sky above us is the visible sign. Serenity is to keep oneself so to speak above the clouds, in the calm and coolness of emptiness and far from all the dissonances of this lower world; it is never to allow the soul to immerse itself in impasses of disturbances, bitterness, or secret revolt, for it is necessary to beware of implicitly accusing Being when accusing some phenomenon. We do not say that one should not accuse evil in all justice, we say that one should not accuse it with an attitude of despair, losing sight of the everywhere-present Sovereign Good and, in another respect, of the imperatives of universal equilibrium; the world is what it must be. Serenity is resignation, at once intellectual and moral, to the nature of things: it is patience in relation to All-Possibility insofar as the latter requires, by its very limitlessness, the existence of negative possibilities, those that deny Being and the qualities manifesting It, as we have noted above. We would also say, in order to provide one more key, that serenity consists in resigning oneself to that destiny, at once unique and permanent, which is the present moment: to this itinerant “now” that no one can avoid and that in its substance pertains to the Eternal. The man who is conscious of the nature of pure Being willingly remains in the moment that Heaven has assigned him; he is not feverishly straining towards the future nor lovingly or sadly bent over the past. The pure present is the moment of the Absolute: it is now – neither yesterday nor tomorrow – that we stand before God. . . . Serenity is the quasi-unconditional moral victory either over the natural shadows, or over the absurd dissonances of the world and of life; in the case of encounters with evil – and we owe it to God and to ourselves to remain in Peace – we may use the following arguments. First, no evil can take anything away from the Sovereign Good or ought to disturb our relationship with God; we must never lose sight of absolute values when in contact with the absurd. Second, we must be conscious of the metaphysical necessity of evil; “it must needs be that offences come.” Third, let us not lose sight of the limits or the relativity of evil; for God shall have the last word. Fourthly, it is clearly necessary to be resigned to God’s will, that is, to our destiny; destiny, by definition, is what we cannot but encounter; and thus it is an aspect of ourselves. Fifth – and this follows from the preceding argument – God wishes to try our faith, hence also our sincerity and our patience, not to mention our gratitude; this is why one speaks of the “trials of life.” Sixth, God will not ask us to account for what others do, nor for what happens to us without our being directly responsible for it; He will only ask us to account for what we are directly responsible for; He will only ask us to account for what we ourselves do. Seventh and last, pure happiness is not for this life, it is for the next; perfection is not of this world  , but this world is not everything, and the last word belongs to Beatitude. [GTUFS: RootsHC, Cosmic Shadows and Serenity]

Serenity is Beauty of the True. [GTUFS: RoadHeart, Peace]