Today I will remember that when I encounter someone who is overheated with angry feeling, I can stay clear and calm and it will not pass to me. Because someone else is having a hard day need not mean that I have to have one too. If I am not a willing receptacle for another person’s angry feelings, they can pass me by. If they connect with my own angry
feelings that I deny by using their anger to mask my own, I will prolong the agony for both of us. Then I need to understand where my anger is coming from and own it. If the anger truly is not mine, I can protect myself by not heating up to its level. I don’t need to get defensive to fend it off-I can fend it off by not becoming it.

I can live with another person’s anger.

Heat cannot of itself pass from a colder to a hotter body.
Rudolph Julius Emanuel Clasius