I've used this imagery before but I think it's valuable here. My answer to your question is to refer to the image of a dream. In a dream, I have many adventures and interact with many apparently separate people. When I wake up, I realize that it was only a dream, that all the separate people don't exist and everything that I thought happened did not really happen.I can appreciate that those words, or any for that matter, are all a part of our illusions, but are the conscious conceptualizations behind them a part of the illusion as well? In your opinion, where does illusion stop and your Self and Absolute Reality begin?
So from this idea, Absolute Reality begins when someone "wakes up".