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