DarkBeaver, "... we take up the teachings of all the brains who've advocated the practice to no end in the past right. In reality it is what is meant by the "meek shall inherit"
The practise being conciliation? Perhaps so. From the abstract juxtapositions of Jesus, you find solid example, where I found only poetry.
Jim the truism is so old nobody remembers it's origin, and it's found everywhere in every tradition. Jesus was a philosophy thief, at least he lifted good stuff if he did nothing else.