Inner peace—also understood as serenity, calmness, or stillness and sometimes called equanimity—describes feeling deeply calm. It is the ability to be present in each moment and see one’s own path clearly from a core of stability. Many step onto the road of spirituality in a search to reach this state of being, a state that will keep us balanced, like a gyroscope, no matter how much our inner or outer world is spinning around us. The religious, mystic, and psychological traditions all recognize that we desire a calm inner state and have developed their practices to provide many avenues to reach it.