there are no solitary beings

The Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh describes that none of us is a separate self, but rather we are interbeings.

Whatever I am doing, the energy of mindfulness enables me to do it as “us,” through interbeing, not as “me.” When I hold a calligraphy brush, I know I cannot remove my father from my hand. I know I cannot remove my mother or my ancestors from me. They are present in all my cells, in my gestures, in my capacity to draw a beautiful circle. Nor can I remove my spiritual teachers from my hand. They are there in the peace, concentration, and mindfulness I enjoy as I make the circle. We are all drawing the circle together. There is no separate self doing it. While practicing calligraphy, I touch the profound insight of no self. It becomes a deep practice of meditation.

– Thích Nhất Hạnh, The Insight of Interbeing

I suspect (but it is only a suspicion) that not being a separate self is different in kind from there being no self. But the difference is drawn together by the phenomenological experience of porous (boundary-less) connection in nondual awareness.