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“Now, in our culture we've been trained for individual differences to stand out, so you look at each person and you meet this kid and immediately he’s, brighter, dumber, older, younger, richer, poorer and we make all these different dimensional distinctions, put them all in categories and treat them that way, and we get so that we only see others as separate from our selves in the ways in which they're separate, and one of the dramatic characteristics of this experience is being with another person and suddenly seeing the ways in which they are like you, not different from you, and experiencing the fact, that which is essence in you, and essence in me is indeed one, and understanding that there is no other, it is all one.”