True blessedness, Jesus tells us, includes things like reconciling yourself to your accuser, turning the other cheek, loving your enemy, being more righteous than the Pharisees and more humble than the silent saints, letting your light shine before others, and offering your prayers, alms, and fasts in humble solitude. To live a life contrary to the vicissitudes and vagaries of the world is to be with God.
— Erik Kolbell, What Jesus Meant