As long as I exist, we can never be one.
As long as there is a “you” and a “me”, there will always be two. The sages say the self causes us to not see what truly is. That “I” am simply an imaginary mental construct. This construct will always be separate. The way to become one — transcend the boundaries between myself and what I love most — is to see that I don’t really exist.
In the same way that right now I can imagine next Friday, but right now, next Friday and everything I imagine in it doesn’t exist (it’s only a mental construct), I also imagine myself. That I exist over time and have a story as to how I got here. This is actually not our first-hand direct experience. In a way, you must be more scientific than scientists.
The sages say that if you can see this and accept its implications, you’ll see that everything is One.
