We should heed the advice of Shunryu Suzuki. In Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, he said, “The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.… When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. Then we can really learn something. The beginner’s mind is the mind of compassion.” If one can learn patience with oneself, one can learn, perhaps, to have compassion and non-judgment towards others.
