we are that

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The Net of Indra is a vast, bejewelled matrix spanning and encompassing the whole universe. 

From every knot hangs a jewel, and each jewel reflects all the other jewels within the net. My father’s life was one jewel hanging from a knot in that infinite web, and in that jewel was reflected my life, and my brothers’ lives, and my mother’s life.

—Eugene Richards
A Life Too Long

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You were enmeshed in a great network which magically changed you into something vaster than yourselves.

For you have need of the vastness that such words alone impart.


—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Wisdom of the Sands

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Inside us there is something that has no name,

that something is what we are.

—José Saramago

Blindness 

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