All DALAI LAMA Quotes about “Enemies”

“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”
“The enemy is a very good teacher.”
“Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.”
“From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.”
“We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.”
“It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.”
“For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.”
“Everything is interconnected. My interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self.”
“Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.”
“Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.”
“The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If I try to develop compassion towards my enemy, it may not benefit him directly, he may not even be aware of it. But it will immediately benefit me by calming my mind. On the other hand, if I dwell on how awful everything is, I immediately lose my peace of mind.”
“The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.”
“The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.”
“An enemy is indeed a precious teacher.”

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