Your Best Teacher
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
The Dalai Lama wrote this in an essay explaining why he does not hate the Chinese government that forced him from Tibet in 1959 and has kept him in exile ever since. He has said many times that his years of loss taught him more about patience than any teacher in a monastery ever could. For him, forgiveness is not pretending harm did not happen, it is refusing to let resentment toward the person who caused it take root. This idea still speaks to anyone carrying anger toward someone, because it turns that person from an obstacle into an unlikely instructor.
Reflection
The Dalai Lama teaches that difficult people can become teachers of patience. Who in my life today could I try to see as a teacher instead of an enemy?