There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. (Buddha, 568-488 BC)

The wise learn many things from their enemies. (Aristophanes)

…be grateful for the experiences that are supreme tests of your patience, inner strength and ability to adapt - for they create many wonderful opportunities for learning… The fact that you are present on Earth in a time of change from a negative to a positive reality will result in you achieving much soul growth. (Orvotron)

Our persistence against resistance is what makes us strong. (Dean Fraser)

Our enemy shows us who we truly are and provides us with the incentive and necessities to become the best that we can be. (Dean Fraser)

My enemy is my enema. (Dean Fraser)

…instead of seeing yourself as a victim of the problems and challenges in your life, see yourself as the powerful soul that created the challenges in order to learn a lesson. Gain compassion and let go of judgement towards yourself and others. Integrate the Light and the Dark and see them as equally valuable parts of the whole, the Creation of God. (Jelaila Starr) - www.nibiruancouncil.com

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? (Walt Whitman, 1819-1892 American Poet)

Most of the time your friend agrees with you and supports you - so it is not hard to love him. But your opponent disagrees with you; he believes that you are wrong; he sees your weaknesses and would do his best to exploit them. If you have a blind spot, you can be sure he sees it. To put it simply, your enemy is not willing to give you the benefit of the doubt - he is, therefore, your very best teacher. Your enemy reflects back to you everything that you do not like about yourself. He shows you exactly where your fears and insecurities lie. If you listen to what your enemy is saying to you, you will know exactly where you must make corrections in yourself. Only one who opposes you thus can be such an effective teacher.

Why do I say 'love' your enemy. I say love your enemy because if you do not love him you won't value the gift he brings to you. No one can go through life without both allies and opponents. A good ally is willing to oppose you. And a good opponent is the very best ally. When you learn to love your enemy, you demonstrate your willingness to look at all of the dark places within your mind. Your enemy is simply a mirror into which you look until gradually the angry face that you see smiles back at you. To make peace with your enemies, you must learn to see through their eyes, as well as through your own. Then you will develop compassion and move beyond conflict. Remember, you do not have to agree with your enemy to make peace with them. (The Christ Mind through Paul Ferrini)

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. (Dalai Lama, 1935 Tibet Religious Leader Resides In India)

There is no better person than our enemy to identify to us where we have some weaknesses that need some strengthening. (Dean Fraser)

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680 French Classical Writer)

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. (Stephen King, 1947 American Horror Writer Actor)

Now we come to the last point: the polar opposites. The more strongly a note is polarized to ONE polarity, the more it annoys or irritates someone of the opposite polarity. In other words, the more a note is opposite another, the more strongly they create discordance when coming into contact with each other. The response, though, is different in its expression.

If one is of a positive polarity, based in cooperation, the response would be to stand together, sing the common note with joy in the singing of it, and simply send the note - the song - out into the universe - freely given, freely sung, without resistance or attachment to effect. That is what you and "yours" (your kind) are created to do, and in so doing, your note - the note of peace, joy, and love - will resound and literally precipitate a WORLD into form that formerly existed only as a potential in the Mind of God.

However, the opposite polarity to yours - the negative polarity - is based in fear and competition; in "power over," rather than pure power from within, and so its response is predictable from the perspective of THAT polarity: they MUST strive against you, to assert their power over you, to POSSESS your power, or to try to destroy you if there is no other option.

The more you sing your note, the more you attract "attacks" from those of the negative polarity. They are just being who THEY are; you are just being who YOU are. Everybody is doing and being what they are supposed to be and do through divine design. In the past, this has engendered bloody wars and imprinted the IDEA of war as a way of coping, a way of imposing one's will on others, in order to suppress their song and eliminate it. (Operation Terra) - www.operationterra.com/Messages/Vol03/Cabbages_.html

The experiences that come from trauma or are very painful will bring a cleansing of karmic ties, boundaries and situations that are repeated in many different lifetimes. All individuals go through difficult situations. Some are more unpleasant then others. These difficulties are actually experiences that allow an individual to release some of the negativity that has been attached to their soul body. Many have carried around the knot of negativity for many different lifetimes. Often one is having a difficult or unpleasant experience at the hands of another. You may want to think of thanking these people that are creating trauma to you. The experience that they are helping you to have is cleansing your energy field. They are helping you to release the built up configurations in the soul body. It is a way to purge and clear your soul body. (The Assembly of Light through Abby Haydon) - www.spiritualguidance.com

Sometimes you must get the pot boiling to achieve action. If nothing rocks your boat, you might be satisfied to only drift along. But if you feel you must make choices and decisions, it makes you both choose your experiences and examine yourself... (Salem through Diandra) - www.inwardjourney.com (Source: Sedona Journal of Emergence June 2004) - www.sedonajournal.com

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. (Wendell Berry, American Social Critic)

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. (Wayne Calloway, American Businessman CEO of Pepsi Co)

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. (Baltasar Gracián)

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. (Edmund Burke, 1729-1797 British Political Writer Statesman)

Competition is the whetstone of talent. (Unknown)

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself. (Jan Christian Smuts, 1870-1950 South African General Statesman and Prime Minister)

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. (Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader)

To be wronged in life is normal unless you continue to remember it. (Confucius, BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher)

We owe almost all of our knowledge not to those who have agreed with us, but to those who have differed. (Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer)

The presence of fear is the gravitator of all opponents. (Dean Fraser)

…it is only through pain that one has felt that one will understand why one cannot harm another, as it hurts. As the pain is felt, and if enough pain is felt, soul learns not to destroy ever again. (Natalia of the One Source through Karen Danrich "Mila") - www.ascendpress.org

Pain is the only enemy, and an enemy is our greatest teacher. (Dean Fraser)