If you act as the enemy of life, then life will become your enemy.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Treating life with hostility invites suffering in return.
- In plain terms
- If you fight against life, life will fight back.
- What can you take from it?
- Align yourself with life rather than opposing it.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you treat life daily?
- What happens if you stop fighting?
Another view
This assumes life has agency to become an enemy.
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