Our individuality enables us to act as precision instruments for the universe itself.
Nonduality does not erase the self - it sharpens it into a lens. The universe cannot taste, grieve, or wonder in the abstract; it does so here, through the narrow aperture of a single life. What we call individuality is not a wall between us and the whole, but the instrument the whole uses to register itself - one stray particle, one spark, made knowable only where something tiny is tuned to receive it. Oneness, then, is not the dissolving of the many into a blur; it is the many becoming exact. We are not separate from the cosmos taking measurements - we are how it reads its own dial. What might the universe be trying to feel through the precise instrument that is you?