Shadee Elmasry – Connection Between Truth and Tranquillity

			Every religious person will tell
you and will swear up and down
		

			that they feel such a tranquility
with their worship. So how do we
		

			make sense of this? Well, one of
the reasons is internal
		

			consistency. Imagine I teach you
some math equations, and I test
		

			you, you go to the exam, and you
answer them exactly as I taught
		

			you, you come back and the exam,
you get an F, but when you left
		

			the exam, and you answer them
exactly the way I taught you, how
		

			do you feel you feel great, lo and
behold, you get a rude awakening
		

			that I taught you all wrong, but
between me and you, you are
		

			consistent. You feel that you did
the right thing. So the feeling of
		

			doing the right thing according to
what you believe is a source of
		

			tranquility. Sometimes you hear
something from somebody who is not
		

			on the truth, yet they say, the
sense of tranquility, I feel it.
		

			And you notice that