(Above photo is courtesy of the mandala project)
Mandalas--- what do you know about them? Probably much more than I did before looking them up.
Roughly, the general idea is that we are a circle. Our interests, our loves, our sorrows. We walk within a circle-- our street, our families, our friends and jobs. That circle is within another circle- our neighborhoods on upwards to our society, our country. That circle is within the larger circle, the Earth. That one is part of the Milky Way, a larger circle. But to go lower, the spiral will continue to shrink to include flowers- circles and spiraling petals, octagons of the fly's eye that sits on top of the petals and the round cells microbes attached to its wings down to the atoms and the particles that fly around each other from magnetism that resembles our own solar system, yet once again.
We are all interconnected and hopefully, all of us experience this interconnectedness as a wholeness to our existence that without, we would be emotionally, physically and spiritually void of life.
Our circles exist elsewhere- time, space, (this post!) where the circle of life ends as it began (if we live long enough).
Maybe the mandala is an invitation to contemplate and experience this sense of wonder? To create one, what would it look like?
Hmmm... this is our new question and latest emotional revelation for group :) (And me)
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