Anonymous wrote:The irony is that meekness, indeed a virtue, is the one virtue above all that allows us to remain ourselves in the midst of adversity. It allows us to maintain self-possession when adversity strikes, rather than be possessed by the adversity itself.
Meekness is more synonymous with empowerment than it is with weakness because, as St. Thomas Aquinas wrote, meekness makes a man self-possessed. Dionysius has told us that Moses, surely no milquetoast, was deemed worthy of the divine apparition on account of his great meekness. According to St. Hilary, Christ dwells in us by our meekness of soul. When we are overcome by anger, we lose that sense of ourselves that allows God to dwell within us. Anger excludes God; meekness invites His presence.
^^^ I found this online re meekness as a virtue and understand it intellectually. But I’m so curious HOW those monks and others can remember and practice in the heat of the moment and not want to lash back
It doesn’t mean you let people walk all over you.
It means mostly you use soft power, you put out fire with water and redirect attackers energy like Aikido rather than meeting force with force or fire with fire.
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