In the Apophthegmata Patrum, we read about Abba Macarius (c. 300-391), a Desert Father living in Egypt:

Abba Macarius while he was in Egypt discovered a man who owned a beast of burden engaged in plundering Macarius’ goods. So he came up to the thief as if he was a stranger and he helped him to load the animal. He saw him off in great peace of soul, saying, “We have brought nothing into this world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.”(1 Tim. 6:7)

Were someone to slight you, what if you didn’t feel slighted in the least and, what’s more, if you felt compassion in your heart? And should another rob you, could you feel that none of this was yours anyway?

Of course, stories like these, as radical and implausible as they may sound, are intended to shine a light on the inner condition of your heart. Is it open or fighting? Loving or cold?

To be established in “great peace of soul”: is that not the aim? To find that no event can break this peace is nothing short of miraculous.