Why Is It Hard to Feel That We Share Our Being?
•February 28, 2026
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Why It Matters
Recognizing a shared universal being could dissolve entrenched conflicts, offering a scalable, low‑cost pathway to sustainable peace and societal cohesion.
Key Takeaways
- •Understanding shared being requires overriding sensory illusion
- •Love is described as feeling the shared universal being
- •World peace hinges on recognizing one collective consciousness
- •Perception of separateness fuels conflict and resentment
- •Practicing unity transforms personal and societal healing
Summary
The video explores a non‑dual philosophical claim: peace and happiness are the innate nature of our being, and that being is not confined to the individual but shared with every person and object. The speaker argues that while inner tranquility is readily accessed by turning inward, recognizing external unity demands a conscious override of our sense‑based perception, which habitually presents the world as a collection of separate entities.
Key arguments center on the distinction between experiential interiority—where one feels peace—and exteriority—where one must intellectually reject the illusion of separateness. By likening this shift to the historical correction of a geocentric worldview, the speaker suggests that understanding the oneness of existence should replace sensory evidence, leading to a feeling described as love for all beings. This love, rooted in the realization that each other's being is one's own, is presented as the singular catalyst for lasting world peace.
Illustrative examples include visualizing a former adversary and extending love toward them, thereby dissolving resentment. The speaker also emphasizes that societal conflicts arise from the persistent belief in discrete selves; when that belief is replaced by the awareness of a single, pervasive being, the cycle of hatred and retaliation ceases. The dialogue repeatedly stresses that this insight requires no additional doctrines, books, or rituals—just a shift in perception.
If adopted broadly, the proposed mindset could transform interpersonal dynamics, reduce collective trauma, and provide a foundational framework for conflict resolution. By reframing policy and education around the principle of shared being, institutions might foster environments where empathy replaces competition, potentially reshaping global diplomatic and economic interactions.
Original Description
Why is it so much easier to feel peace as the nature of one’s own being than to feel that we share that being with everyone and everything?
Rupert says: ‘You recognise that peace and happiness are the nature of your being because that refers to your inner experience. But recognising that you share your being with everyone requires overriding the evidence of sense perception – just as understanding overrides the old belief that the earth is flat, or that the sun goes round the earth. Begin to feel in a way that is consistent with your understanding. What is that feeling called? It’s called love. Just love everything and everybody indiscriminately, because you know that their being is your being and you love yourself.
‘One simple idea is required for world peace: we share our being with everyone. Think of somebody who has hurt you – visualise them, and feel that their being is your being and that you love them as you love yourself, because they are yourself. Doesn’t that attitude heal your resentment? I don’t see any other way of healing the hatred and resentment passed from generation to generation other than this understanding. It would heal the past and be the foundation of a truly peaceful, harmonious, beautiful society.’
*This video is from one of Rupert’s in-person retreats at Mandali, 30 Audust–6 September 2025. For more information on upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to:
Timestamps:
0:00 Feeling Oneness with Everyone
2:06 Inner vs Outer Experience
4:06 Overriding Sense Perception
5:05 Understanding Over Perception
6:14 Oneness Is Called Love
7:00 World Peace
10:42 Healing Resentment
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