The enemy is not a person
If you kill people with whom will you live?
The enemy's name is cruelty
The enemy's name is lack of conscience
Its name is hatred, its name bitterness.
The enemy wears a coat of doctrine
The enemy wears the pretence of freedom
It wears hypocrisy, it wears twisted words.
The enemy is not a stranger
It lies inside of each of us.
The enemy's name is false accusation
The enemy's name is ignorance
Its name is ambition, its name is envy.
The enemy's name is covetous eyes
The enemy's name is arrogant head
Its name is a lonely heart, its name is a narrow mind.
The enemy is not a person.
If you kill people with whom will you live?
The enemy is not in the stranger
It lies inside of each of us.
By Thich Nhat Hanh(Vietnamese Buddhist monk)
Forgive many things in others,nothing in yourself.
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