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For me solipsism is where someone believes there is only one mind and that they are that mind. One aspect of the spiritual path is to debunk this tendency, to realize that others are just as real as oneself.
The I AM notion is where there is only one consciousness. Everyone is the one consciousness or I Am. At the same time everyone is simply a fragment of that consciousness. Everyone is merely a wave yet at the same time we are all the whole ocean.
There is only one being in the universe and that being is eternal and uncreated. I am it and we are it. We are all one together. We are not one alone as in solipsism but one together as in enlightenment.
To the separate mind this doesn't make sense. Yet the heart is able to embrace this paradox. To the heart I Am the One because everyone is also the one. We are all one. We are all it.
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