Greed and hate, power and revenge, jealousy and lust have served only to create a world full of physical and mental poverty. While individual ideas of implementing brotherhood may be misconstrued at times, innate responsiveness to the ideal is universally felt among mankind. Each of us, from our own personal perspective, will understand this concept uniquely. Our emphasis will be shifted from the good of the one to the good of the whole because we will realize that we are brothers and, therefore, must grow up through life's experiences together as a collective humanity. Paradoxically, however, none of this wholeness and oneness can be realized until every single person undergoes a transformation in his own soul.
Nobody can legislate personal salvation.
To know brotherhood and be a member of its company requires a self-knowledge which can only be born out of our own suffering and experience. We forget what we've told ourselves, that brotherhood begins at home, with us. We also forget that this means not to look for results or the fruits of our actions but to keep steadfast to those convictions we know to be true. Unless we do so, brotherhood stands outside of us, distant, chaste, and unapproachable. If we can see that the source of this discomfort, and what it is that triggers our lesser natures into action, resides in ourselves, then we will have won a measure of self-knowledge.