Proverbs 6:29 Meaning So Is He Who Goes

To take what belongs to another is to accept the very belief in lack that made the taking seem necessary, and it is this acceptance, not any deed alone, that troubles the mind. The one who reaches into a neighbor's life for what he thinks he needs has already agreed with the ego that he is empty, and that agreement is the loss of his felt innocence. He is not condemned from without; he has condemned himself within by choosing separation as true.

Yet innocence lost this way is never innocence destroyed, only forgotten, and it waits to be reclaimed the moment the belief is set down. A mind that sees it grasped from lack can release the grasping and remember it was whole all along. The guilt was in the choosing, and the choosing can be unmade.

Neighbour's wife: what seems to belong to another and is coveted from a sense of lack, the object through which the mind agrees it is empty. He that goeth in: the mind that reaches outside itself for completion, believing separation and so forfeiting its own remembered innocence.