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Date: 12 August 2005 10:23:08
I love the image of meekness as a rock in an irritable sea, remaining steadfast and unmoved while breaking all that dashes against it. Grant this, O Lord!Meekness is an unchangeable state of mind which remains the same in honour and dishonour. Meekness is the rock overlooking the sea of irritability which breaks all the waves that dash against it, remaining itself unmoved.
St John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 24
[via Spirituality : Beatitudes : Meekness, from Fr Hopko's The Orthodox Faith]