It is often only in the experience of a painful dance that one learns compassion. If one has not experienced such difficulties, how can one understand first hand? (Natalia of the One Source through Karen Danrich "Mila") - www.ascendpress.org

Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind. But the real test of character is if you can think kindly of an enemy. (Aeschylus)

To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others. (Eugene Cloutier)

There is a Tibetan story of a fellow who, while visiting a temple, saw someone sitting in meditative posture. He asked the meditator what he was doing, and the meditator answered, I am cultivating patience. Then that person said something very harsh to the meditator and the meditator at once answered back angrily. This response came because although he had been cultivating patience, he had not encountered anyone who was harming him or speaking badly to him; he had no chance to practice patience. Thus, the best of all situations for the practice of patience is an enemy, and for this reason someone engaged in the Bodhisattva practices should treat an enemy with tremendous respect. (The Dalai Lama)

We need to teach people how we need to be treated. (Dr Phil)

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. (Marcus Aurelius)

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. (Henry Miller, 1891-1980 American Author)

…the people of the Earth School were not given the universal knowledge of how to integrate fear. Instead they were given information of how to deny, suppress, repress, ignore, and hide from fear. This was in keeping with the concept of soul evolution on a planetary school. Therefore we see this as a positive instead of a negative for as you have come to understand, we grow through the Dark and into the Light, not the other way around. The Dark is the school house and foundation of duality. It is only through losing the knowledge of who you really are and then finding it again, and living it, that you achieve soul evolution and enlightenment. For those of you still in condemnation and judgement of the school we encourage you to see this from the highest perspective and be willing to integrate the dark of the planetary school, for that integration is your salvation… (Devin through Jelaila Starr) - www.nibiruancouncil.com

The wisdom of the saint was gathered as the sinner. (Unknown)

Life challenges us to become better not bitter. (Unknown)

My enemies are my "inner me's." The ones that I most harshly judge are most like the parts of myself I dislike and consequently deny, which as a last resort, my higher self presents into my reality to make me look into the mirror. By loving unconditionally, showing compassion, and feeling gratitude to this part of who I am, do I integrate these portions of my polarity. (Dean Fraser)

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought. (Mahatma Gandhi)

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. (Frank A. Clark)

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. (Antisthenes, 388-311 BC Greek Dramatist)

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author)

A strong foe is better than a weak friend. (Edward Dahlberg, 1900-1977 American Author Critic)

A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. (Baltasar Gracian, 1601-1658 Spanish Philosopher Writer)

Enemies are so stimulating. (Katharine Hepburn, 1907 American Actress Writer)

Have you learned 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 the passage with you? (Walt Whitman)

The ones of lesser light should be seen as an opportunity to test our spiritual strength and progress our spiritual development. (Dean Fraser)

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me. (Clare Boothe Luce, 1903-1987 American Diplomat Writer)

The dark players give us chances to practice shinning our light. (Dean Fraser)

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. (Leon Trotsky, 1879-1940 Russian Revolutionary)

Wise men learn many things from their enemies. (Aristophanes, BC 448-380 Greek Comic Poet Satirist)

Without an opponent we'd never need to lift our game, and our game would never be improved. (Dean Fraser)

Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 American Poet Essayist)

We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way. (Earl G. Graves)

Who is a wise man? He who learns from all men. (The Talmud, BC 500-400 AD Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition)

In life we attract what we need to learn. (Unknown)

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. (John Neal)

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900 German Philosopher)

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. (Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993 American Christian Reformed Pastor Speaker Author)

It's only ever our antagonist that leads us to catharsis. (Dean Fraser)

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. (Antisthenes)

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself. (Henry Miller, 1891-1980 American Author)

To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents. (Don Piatt)

Conflict in ascending and non-ascending relationships releases as one learns the lessons of the karma and associated entities or personality beings dancing in the field at cause. Mila and Oa have noticed that conflict is generally a nonphysical expression coming through them eliciting an argument between the two. Generally they stop and ask themselves “Who is angry? Who is arguing?”. Then they intend to release the persona or even soul responsible, and they find themselves moving back into harmony shortly thereafter. Sometimes entities from their students or the web site or neighbors enter their fields causing conflict. As the entities are moved out, the conflict ceases.

Most personal conflict is the result of souls or personality entities that are in conflict. Perhaps such personality or souls have warred upon one another for eons of time. As they come together again through human relationships, they dance in conflict yet again. As a result of this, Mila and Oa have taught those studying with them to mold the personality towards harmony. One is at choice in terms of what entities one allows to dance with one’s field. One can command those beings that desire to create conflict with others out of the field, and choose to anchor in their place souls or personality that are harmonious.

One can also command the persona of others who are less aware or non-ascending to be harmonious. If the persona of another creates continuous harm either that is verbal, physical, emotional or energetic, one can command such entities to permanently leave the field of another. Earth will assist with such shifts and so one can call upon the earth mother in such circumstances. In so doing, one can begin to create harmony in circumstances that may have been conflictive for a long time. So Mila and Oa have discovered in their relations with their associates, neighbors or anyone else that may cross their path in their travels. Here are some useful intents for molding personality for harmony. (The Ancient Grand Masters through Karen Danrich "Mila") - http://www.ascendpress.org