quietism
Calm worldly detachment
Quietism is a philosophy or attitude of passive acceptance, withdrawal from worldly concerns, and inner stillness.
In religious contexts, it refers to a Christian mystical tradition emphasizing contemplation and surrender to divine will over active devotion.
More broadly, quietism describes any stance of deliberate disengagement from political or social action: His quietism in the face of injustice frustrated his more activist colleagues.
Sustained reflective attention
- passivityState of non-resistance
- inner lightSpiritual guidance within oneself
- pure loveAffection free of conditions
- abandonmentAct of leaving permanently
mysticism · pietism · devotion · grace · sanctification · prayer · meditation · divine union
State of non-resistance
- nonresistanceRefusal to oppose force
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- inactionDeliberate nonmovement
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
resignation · acquiescence · fatalism · disengagement · noninvolvement · nonintervention · laissez-faire · apathy
Principled rejection of force
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- nonresistanceRefusal to oppose force
- inactionDeliberate nonmovement
- disengagementWithdrawal from involvement
withdrawal · abstention · noninvolvement · neutrality · passive resistance · civil disobedience · conscientious objection · antiwar
contemplation
Sustained reflective attention
- passivityState of non-resistance
- inner lightSpiritual guidance within oneself
- pure loveAffection free of conditions
abandonment · mysticism · pietism · devotion · grace · sanctification · prayer · meditation · divine union · quietude
passivity
State of non-resistance
- nonresistanceRefusal to oppose force
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- inactionDeliberate nonmovement
detachment · resignation · acquiescence · fatalism · disengagement · noninvolvement · nonintervention · laissez-faire · apathy · indifference
nonviolence
Principled rejection of force
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- nonresistanceRefusal to oppose force
- inactionDeliberate nonmovement
disengagement · withdrawal · abstention · noninvolvement · neutrality · passive resistance · civil disobedience · conscientious objection · antiwar · nonparticipation
- Christian Mysticismmystical union, divine union, contemplative life, dark night of the soul, mystical states
- Schopenhauerwill to live, pessimism, voluntarism, thing-in-itself, suffering
- Wittgensteinfamily resemblance, duck-rabbit, private language, showing, saying
- contemplationcontemplation, meditation, reflection, pondering, musing
- inactioninaction, passivity, doing nothing, stillness, immobility
- solitudesolitude, alone, isolation, aloneness, seclusion
quietismactivism
Direct effort for reform
militancy · radicalism · political engagement · agitation · interventionism
quietismassertiveness
Confident self-expression quality
aggressiveness · combativeness · restlessness · dynamism · belligerence