Love Thine Enemy

adage: An old saying.
adamant: Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability.
admonition: Gentle reproof.
adumbrate: To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
affable: Easy to approach.

The admonition "Love Thine Enemy." This advice was first presented to me through the Jesus (as the western world knows the guy, anyway). He mentioned this in that crazy big book called the Bible, so they say, as an ecclesiastical gentle slap on the knuckles for thinking of acting on hatred of another person. At least that’s the way I interpreted the ol’ adage, and I have to say, that way of being makes me much more affable. You know, other people may think of it differently, as a saying that adumbrates the implication of having enemies in the first place, that having an enemy is a loveless endeavor, and thus you'd become loveless yourself. An enemy, well, I think of an enemy as a sort of adamant type character, the villain in your life-book, someone who is incapable of being represented any other way to you. Funny, though, as soon as you love thine enemy, s/he’s no longer an enemy, eh?