No One Is Your Friend. No One is Your Foe.

No one is your friend.

No one is your foe.

Everyone is your teacher.

When I read the above from "The Game of Life and How to Play It" by Florence Scovel Shinn, something stirred in me deeply because the statement is so impersonal and so simple.  And yet in its simplicity lies Perfect Love because the focus is always in the moment of any experience. 

It does'nt matter who you are in the moment with - family, friend or foe. All are Teachers. Every Soul is teaching me something new about myself. I can resist ofcourse if I don't like the lesson, but more and more Teachers spring up with more and more lessons. Far better to develop a genuine sense of cheerfulness and humor  to deal with difficult situations. I say genuine, because surface humor only just acts as a temporary relief. But true and a divine sense of humor gives you divine insight.  What matters only is that every interaction becomes a blessing because of the purity of attention paid to it. You are not concerned about anything else. Your whole attention is finely focussed on this moment. It slows you down and releases the tension of having to be doing something else simultaneously. At the end of it you learn something new not only about yourself, but also receive glimpses of the fourth dimension where sages say a wondrous life abounds. 

Doing this as a spiritual discipline creates a wider and deeper understanding of Life and its Beauty. This practice is teaching me patience and compassion for myself first and foremost. It is also giving me a new range of possibilities of how I can find peace within myself for longer and longer periods of time.

Perfect Love casts out all fear. Let all worldly beliefs and labels drop away. They have no substance. It is time well spent staying focussed on this activity.

Om Shanti.