“Myths grow not in the soil of any particular place but in the humus of humanity itself. We are not strangers to each other. We drink from different wells but from the same aquifer. A Hindu myth about the god Indra offers a beautiful illustration of this unitive principle. Indra once wove a net to encompass the world, and at each knot he fastened a bell. Thus nothing could stir—not a person, not a leaf on a tree, not a single emotion—without ringing a bell, which would, in turn, set all the others to ringing.”
-Gregg Levoy, Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life, p. 140-41
What’s an aquifer?