Word: nirvanas
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...pince-nez and a very neat toothbrush mustache. Educated in England, he still buys his clothes there, is seldom seen without his bowler hat, yellow gloves and tightly rolled umbrella. M. Roy is completely bilingual and looks not unlike Premier André Tardieu. He has more over attained the nirvana of the French bourgeoisie, he is a rentier and need never paint a stroke, could live quite comfortably on his inherited income...
...group of undergraduates who visualize a far off goal of supremacy where they can bask in the glow of multitudinous activities. All forms of extra-curricular work, among them the CRIMSON, have the misfortune to be included among the rungs of the ladder that leads to this Nirvana. And so this feeling grows in proportion to the number of activities that are available, and the most unfortunate part of the whole idea is that it is built on a fallacy...
...subject, is not easy to put in words. One can approach his definition by stating its opposite. The common assumption is that peace is a status, or that it is a static thing. Among persons chiefly sentimental, this conception is universal. They think of peace as a condition, a Nirvana. They think "Let us have peace, and then we can go about our business in peace...
...peace is not a static thing." It is a dynamic thing, having sometimes greater momentum, sometimes less; sometimes it is more capable of matching the forces making for war, sometimes less. Peace is at once a resultant of forces and itself a force. Being a force, it permits no Nirvana-like rest to those who enjoy it or cherish it, or are responsible for it; it must be continuously fed, from time to time stimulated; must at all times be the object or fostering concern. Peace, in short, in Mr. Hoover's conception, must be the beneficiary of an activity...
Buddhists believe in reincarnation and, therefore, that life ceases never. When a Buddhist becomes enlightened and good he may himself become a Buddha. Then he reaches Nirvana where there is rest and surcease from the pains of life and death...