Sky Dancer
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Friends, enemies and strangers. We exaggerate the positive qualities of our friends, while ignoring or minimizing their flaws. We do the opposite with our enemies. We exaggerate their negative qualities, ignore or minimize their positive qualities and we are indifferent to strangers.
How can one develop an equal, kind, regard for "friend, enemy and stranger"?
Friend, Stranger or Enemy by David W. Edgerly, Ph.D.
I spent about a month one time contemplating this topic. It's pretty illuminating.
A "friend" is a person who is on good terms, an "enemy" is someone who is not. The degrees vary. A stranger is simply an irrelevant unknown, unless rendered relevant one way or another.
You understand what I'm saying perfectly. Perhaps, you can help some of the others who are lost.