PAP

“Whenever I am tempted to impatience or anger because someone in my group does not agree with me, I will remind myself to place principles above personalities.” (ODAT, 27 December)

First, I shift the anger from the person to the idea.

Then I realise that I need not be angry with the idea: it is abstract.

I can merely recognise that, just as right ideas exist, so do wrong ones. Harmless, in themselves.