“Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil. But for my part I have long perceived the nature of good and its nobility, the nature of evil and its meanness, and also the nature of the culprit himself, who is my brother (not in the physical sense, but as a fellow-creature similarly endowed with reason and a share of the divine); therefore none of these things can injure me, for nobody can implicate me in what is degrading. Neither can I be angry with my brother or fall foul of him; for he and I were born to work together like a man’s two hands, feet or eyelids or like the upper and lower rows of his teeth. To obstruct each other is against Nature’s Law – and what is irritation or aversion but a form of obstruction”
So, a little maxim to improve the shining hour. I can think of any number of days when recitation of this recommendation would have made my day go easier.
Is it something new that I have not heard of it before? Well – no. Not exactly. The author was about some while ago. I had not realised that his day could be so complicated that it required these attitudes.
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