It is a very common spiritual realization precedeeing self-realization. Others are “it’s all based on love”, “we are infinite”, “we are all one consciousness having different experiences”, “there’s a Source of love in all of us” etc.

It is not true in the absolute sense, but it’s the beginning of the process of unfolding.

The mind is a dreamer. It creates a self-image (ego), which isn’t based on anything but fantasy and fear. But this image cannot exist in isolation. For example, how can you be a “kind” person, if there are no unkind people? It’s impossible. Any self-image can only exist in comparison to others. So, to complement the notion of “self”, the mind creates similar images of other people - in other words, what kind of people they are. And they interact, they play. All of this happens in your mind, not reality.

There’s an underlying physical reality underneath all that - after all, you can touch a person, and there’s no denying that. But the existence of self-image makes one view the reality through a kind of “lens”, which distorts the perception of how people really are, and makes one do and say pretty silly things.

When one has a temporary glance into the underlying reality, it often feels like “we are all one”. But the dreaming mind is a confused mind. So it often interprets this feeling literally, as in we are all physically one entity, or that we’re all “connected” to some other, bigger entity, and that enlightenment is the final culmination of “our” lives when we all, literally, “merge” together. So, a human can never be enlightened, and when this “merging” happens - there will be no humans.

This is confusion. The reality is that this other, bigger entity is just you, and that was a glimpse into the theater that is going on in your own mind on top of that. It’s the sensation/feeling that it was you who created both the self-image and the images of other people, so they are all connected to one source - you.

Every person has their own little theater going on in their head, and of course, it doesn’t match anyone else’s exactly. That is, my self-image may not match how you see me and vice versa. This is the source of all interpersonal conflict.

In self-realization, self-image is seen and abandoned. After that, the images of other people begin to slowly collapse. When they do, it is no longer possible to have an interpersonal conflict with anybody, because you see people how they are, not as a complement to your own self-image, so there’s never a misalignment. Other people may have a conflict with you, but you never have a conflict with anybody.