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You Are Not My Enemy

By Marc Ian Barasch

Building Bridges for Peace brings together young people from Palestine and Israel.

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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’

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We read to know we are not alone.

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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.

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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

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No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

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