Daily Meditation: Friday, September 24, 2004

Enemy - how we become our own Enemy

09/24/2004

Who can deny that among the greatest ordeals suffered by human beings, the worst are those they endlessly inflict on each other… and on themselves at the same time? Yes, just because someone has expressed thoughts and feelings you do not share, you begin to think of him as your enemy and decide to oppose him. From then on you interpret all of his behaviour in a negative way when, in fact, he is not your enemy. He bears you no malice and what is more has no idea why you reproach him. It is you who create an enemy by the way in which you think of him and, in doing so, you also destroy something inside yourself. You, then, are your own worst enemy; it is you who take up arms against yourself. Tell me, is this intelligent?