If we cannot love our neighbor as ourself, it is because we do not perceive our neighbor as ourself. We perceive the neighbor as precisely not ourself, but as a potential threat (or potential aid) to ourself. This perception in turn is based on other assumptions and ways of ordering the world that have to do with how reality is differentiated into separate objects and events and how these are organized into groups or unities. It is not a matter of the exhortation being an ideal that is difficult to attain; it is a contradiction of our culture that is strictly impossible to realize, so long as we see the world the way we do.
— Beatrice Bruteau, The Holy Thursday Revolution