No matter how flowery they are, words are at best tokens of exchange. Even with the perfect diction, you will always find limitations with language. Language is dualistic in nature and you will always find the opposite of a given word: this vs that, me vs you, big vs small, high vs low, etc.
Supreme consciousness or oneness can only be attained through non-duality. But from a pragmatic standpoint, we do need language for the normal functioning of a human being. How we can use it as an expedient mean to free ourselves from all boundaries is the real practice. In other words, language is the finger pointing to the moon but not the moon itself. We are not trying to negate existence though but rather using language as a gateway to gain non-conceptualisation, non-differentiation and non-discrimination. Paradoxically, the objective is to drop conceptual contrivance through first gaining wisdom from words and creating the space for direct experience so that we can reap the fruit of liberation. As we have emphasised, words are boundaries. Some levels of connection can only be felt but not understood and expressed in words.
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