Can you love your enemy?

Sometimes you find that people that are your enemies are only your enemies in your perception and they would be shocked, hurt, or surprised to find out that you regard them that way. They are either too self absorbed to notice you or the thing they supposedly do wrong to you would not be apparent to the onlooker. It is because they are violating one of your personal hang ups or reflecting back to you what you are personally dealing with. You will find when you are at peace with something in your heart, a lot of your enemies disappear because they were not enemies to begin with. "loving them" can be simply holding your tongue when someone else drops bait for you to want to gossip about them, and to love them as another human being that is on the same journey. Or it can be more involved.

yup your right... it is not easy to love our enemies specially if that enemy of ours really pains us. I have that experience before in which, i was being betrayed by a friend. I hurts me a lot that i promise to myself to hate him for my entire life. But time pass and i can see that his life is not as good as ours. I was thinking that he paid for what he did to me... so i decided not to hate him anymore...

I agree that it is so hard to love our enemy. But it a best way to defeat the enemy by your love and kindness. Hate is not solution. Love the enemy and teach them the way of revenge with love. If you want to defeat your enemy then you should defeat him or her with your good moral. He will become your friend. When the enemy becomes a friend you win the battle without fight and this cause your undefeatable victory.

You know, I honestly can say that I think I can love my enemy. There are people in this world who have really hurt me- two recently that I just can't seem to get over. While my anger is still high with the two, I would still help them if I knew they needed something. I still wish their lives would be more positive. It still makes me sad that anger has gotten in the way of a relationship that once was. I don't think that love goes away just because people are angry. Maybe more to the point on this is that I really don't have enemies. The closest I come is people who have hurt me.

I think i may love my enemy ! Somebody may hate their enemy,But I disagree,In my opinion ,our enemy may make us feel stronger,andmore brave!

it's hard to love an enemy, we can forgive what they have done to us but it's not easy to forget or even if we forget, how can we love them when they have been our enemy before....we can talk with each other but it's hard to love them...

i know that loving my enemies is the right way to go but sometimes it can really be difficult to do that. some people just make it so hard for me to like or accept them much less love them. but for my new years resolution i will try to love my enemies even though it is hard.

Actually you can love your enemy. The sad part is it really hard to love your enemy specially if you hate that much. But as Confucius said "A journey to a thousand miles always begin with a single step" A small start can make a big difference. I suggest you may start by giving this few simple words "May Peace be with you"

I think I am not generous in this aspect. I can't love my enemy. Perhaps I will forgive my enemies, but it doesn't mean that I will love them. Forgiving just makes myself feel better.

for me no way,coz in real word i have no enemy,only someone i dont like,maybe i dont never hate him but dont like,so wish you have a good day and merry the coming christmas

No and never will ... LOL

Nicely said, but I can't believe someone can do this. All we can do is be nice to them if they don't annoy us too much when we have to get in touch with them. Well, "forgive your enenies" would be more appropriate to say. I would love them a little bit if they stayed away from me.

I have some enemies, not because i harmed them in any way but because they are a bit afraid of who i am (not in a bad way). To be honest, i like having enemies, they show us that we can be powerful and they envy who we are. At least is what happens to me. I am who i am, i never harmed no one. but I still have enemies. Now i have more self-esteem. Maybe this don't have any logic for you, but if you think a bit harder you will see what I mean. Our enemies make us feel more wanted, more "special", just because they wanted to be like you, have the same things and even, maybe, your personality. So... to answer your question, yes, I love my enemies, with them i am stronger and my self-esteem is higher.

It's sooooo hard. Tried to do that and the far I can go is to ignore and that too took lots of restraint.