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Each jewel of Indra’s Net includes the reflections of all the other jewels; the significance of this symbolism is that each entity in the universe contains within itself the entire universe. This idea, rather than positing interdependence among separately existing entities, asserts that the whole does not owe its existence to the coming together of... See more
Rajiv Malhotra • The Vedic metaphor of Indra’s Net
Vortex
Constant evolution, growth, a spiral, change, transformation, rebirth, regeneration
The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry
Maria Popova • 2 highlights
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There are living rocks up there as there are down here, and the dark spaces between the stars are not a vacuum, but solid lands that have mass and sentience, reflecting places and times on earth. I can see the pattern—right up until the point I try to write it down, when it disappears like smoke.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
The second level exists "above" the first but permeates the latter at all times and in all instances. This second level is the invisible world, the plane of the as-yet-unmanifested, the sphere of pure potentiality. Upon this level dwells that which will be, but is not yet.