Make No Enemies — Let Life Be Your Teacher

Today I reflected on something I’ve been learning again and again, and I feel called to share it:

Make no enemies.

An “enemy” doesn’t have to be a person. It can just as easily be an idea, an ideology, or a narrative we position ourselves against like:

“This is all nonsense.”
“They are lying to us.”
“Those people are the problem.”

When our inner stance is constantly against something or someone, something subtle happens within us. Even on a spiritual path, difficult moments, conflicts, and friction are not obstacles — they are material. They are invitations to learn.

When we stop making enemies:

we begin to act with more goodness, not as an ideal, but as a natural response
we start to understand others instead of reducing them
we notice that people who accuse, attack, or project often suffer from the very things they condemn

When we create enemies, something in us gets triggered — whether we want it or not. And that triggered state pulls us into a more negative inner condition, which quietly harms the soul.

So perhaps the practice is not:

“How do I defeat this?”

but rather:

“What is this here to teach me?”

Make no enemies — Recognize that moments of resistance can become teachers.

Life is a school —

mistakes are the lessons,

and accumulated experience is the teacher.

Erhard

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