As I crawl down this path, like all of us, I have come to a revelation.

Total enlightenment is suicide of the self. It is the process in which one consciously destroys his/her ego. There is no more identity left at the end of the path. To know all and be in touch with all, you must sacrifice individuality. That is the price one must pay. Not in a physical sense (who knows maybe you just vanish into thin air at this point) but in a universal, human, mental sense; there is no more you, or the ability to even recognize what you were before this point; you will simply exist; nothing more.