The size of a setback can have a significant bearing on whether the result is humility or rage. For instance, a parking ticket legitimately earned, even if unintentionally, is likely to result in humility. But if the car is towed, impounded, and quickly sold at auction the next day by corrupt officials, the result is not likely to be “humility.” Some setbacks are karmic, but others are first offenses or unearned and undeserved insults. Humility seems to have the deck stacked against it in these situations. What is Creator’s perspective?

This is a very human-level question, owing to the many circumstances where humans are, indeed, coming from behind and facing fierce opposition with little insight and awareness, and preparation to have sophisticated tools to work with in responding in a more divine way than using anger. The divine perspective is that humility is appropriate on all occasions, but requires inordinate inner strength to succeed in all circumstances. That is why it is difficult to maintain, to be consistently smooth, calm, unflustered, steady, while being resilient, steadfast, unflappable, and in control of oneself, and able to think clearly when challenged under any conditions. Anger, and especially rage as an extreme expression of anger, implies a lack of control, a lack of safety, a lack of power, because rage is an act of desperation when someone feels threatened or treated so unfairly they take umbrage and, indeed, are seeking revenge as though punishing an opponent will restore what was taken from them—that in fact can never happen. Anger that results in the wounding of another does not restore the self. What is needed to right the wrongs in human discourse is to treat people with respect, consideration, compassion, and a loving appreciation that they are all children of the divine and might be in need of something, making them act unfairly in a given circumstance. Such individuals are doing so because they are missing something in themselves, and mistakenly trying to take it from others for their own use, when what is needed is the vibration of love to be reigning supreme in their experiencing of life. When something happens to take that away, to lower that vibration, it will not be restored by harming whoever caused that to happen. A person cannot go to an attacker and take love from them to restore themselves—that is why warfare on any scale is a faulty and destructive notion and not a means to achieve growth or improvement for anything or anyone. Powerful self-control of a humble individual happens because they are in divine alignment, will have the strength of many from that blessing and will be much more effective in changing things for the better. You can see this frequently in very common human exchanges, that when a dispute breaks out it is rarely the person who becomes hysterical and out of control, shouting and yelling and name-calling, who will be respected and listened to. It will be the calm, cool, and collected, rational, thoughtful person who will likely prevail, and that is true whether they are truly in the right or not. Someone who is on the side of truth but cannot control their emotions, and indulges in excess anger and rageful attacks on others, will be very ineffective in getting what they want, whether it is deserved or not. Fighting fire with fire will backfire for sure.