The most common attribute associated with a sage is peace (santi). Such a person advocates peace, sees and knows peace, is at peace, is peaceful. The sage is also tranquil, still and unmoving, unshakable, and equanimous. Though peace is clearly an attribute of sages, they do not depend on peace or intentionally take it up. This is because sages do not depend on or take up anything: instead they let go.
---Gil Fronsdal, in The Buddha before Buddhism---
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