more on 2 as ONE ALL:
When You are with
no-one BUT
ME,
You are with
every-one.
When WITH
every-one BUT
me, ME
you're WITH no-one.
Paraphrase of Rumi's short paradox, here quoted entirely:
We Are Three p. 115.
When you are with everyone but me,
you’re with no one.
When you are with no one but me, you’re with everyone.
Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. {Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on "being everybody."}
When you become that many, you’re nothing. Empty.