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veen  ·  2011 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 19, 2018

I meditate regularly with this app called Headspace, and in its lessons they describe two concepts that seem to be what you're describing. One is this idea of the 'blue sky', which is a metaphor for the blank canvas that your mind can always be:

The second is what they call 'quiet confidence', which is the kind of confidence that does not stem from experience or ego but from this blue-sky like inner peace that's hard to describe.