A Distorted View of Individuality, by M. Horaku Each of us and everything around us is a beautiful, complete manifestation of the Silent Self here in the realm of form (the Relative).  We are an individual wave in the ocean.  The reason for this is because the Absolute realm (emptiness) cannot know Itself without the Relative realm (form) and the Relative cannot know Itself without the Absolute.  This is the subject/object duality of Reality as-it-is. What our “goal” or “dest