Walk a day in your brother's shoes?

It’s been said we can join with a brother when we walk a day in his shoes.

But truth be known, two men cannot walk in the same shoes. So, it must be that things of the body, things of this world that make us separate, we must shed, for joining can only be of the mind.

To join in mind, there is no skin to have a color. There is no face to show an age. There is no body to define the sex, and there are no hands with which he labors, no eyes to see wrongly, no ears to judge words harshly.

As prophets of old have long foretold, joining with our brother requires a releasing of oneself from attachment to the body and its limitations, its judgments and its pain.

We cannot join if two cannot walk in the same shoes. Either the shoes must be kicked off, or we must remain in separate worlds.

Dlp 8-17-05