Indeed, the whole point of meditation or contemplation — whether it appears in the East or in the West, whether Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, or Hindu — is to free ourselves from the "optical delusion" that we are merely separate egos set apart from each other and from eternal Spirit, and to discover instead that, once released from the prison of individuality, we are one with Godhead and thus one with all manifestation, in a perfectly timeless and eternal fashion.
— Ken Wilber, The Essential Ken Wilber