"Love your enemy as yourself" is not so much a perfectionistic moral injunction as it is a revelation of the only possible path toward self-knowledge and self-acceptance.
The first rule for discovering the treasure hidden in the images of the enemy is this: Listen to what the enemy says about you, and you will learn the truth you have repressed. To come to greater self-understanding, borrow the eyes of the alien, see yourself from afar. Let the familiar become strange and the strange familiar — the two rules of creativity. Look with suspicion on the rhetoric of your nation and listen with compassion to the reason of the enemy.
— Sam Keen, Faces of the Enemy