Powerful stuff

Power is the lure that attracts the ego with its promise of control.

The ego, in it's innate insecurity, is willing to cede control of it's local environment so that it can "strengthen" it's hold on it's perceptions. It fails to realize that it's perceptions are subjective in nature and personal in orientation. What results is invariably chaos when all of the disparate perspectives of those involved come crashing together.

Walk a mile in his shoes refers to the sharing of presences and the appreciation of the synergy that a commonality can provide. When you control, you get what you have (and can hold onto...) when you share, you have access to everything that is present.