Association of Fractal
There is an interesting pattern of stories in traditional Chinese novels.
Hundreds years ago, Chinese people wrote and read stories where another world was found to exist in a tiny vase or such a vessel. And, a hero living in this real world went into another world in a vessel or sometimes a human ear to experience an extraordinary incident.
It might remind you of a fractal, a geometric feature of this universe.
Fractal
A fractal is a mathematical set that typically displays self-similar patterns, which means it is "the same from near as from far".[1] Fractals may be exactly the same at every scale, or, as illustrated in Figure 1, they may be nearly the same at different scales. The concept of fractal extends beyond trivial self-similarity and includes the idea of a detailed pattern repeating itself.
Fractals are distinguished from regular geometric figures by their fractal dimensional scaling.
One often cited description that Mandelbrot published to describe geometric fractals is "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole";[2] this is generally helpful but limited. Authorities disagree on the exact definition of fractal, but most usually elaborate on the basic ideas of self-similarity and an unusual relationship with the space a fractal is embedded in.
Figure 2. Koch snowflake, a fractal that begins with an equilateral triangle and then replaces the middle third of every line segment with a pair of line segments that form an equilateral "bump"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal
So, there are similar conditions in smaller spaces around us to those at the level of our real living space.
But also in the human mind, there is such structure. Conversely, if you have become rich, your basic mind structure or internal structure must be the same as that you had when you were poor.
Money cannot change the internal structure of a man, though he would become more coarse internally while expanding its size and upgrading its level in terms of interaction with the material world. While a poor man could see various exquisite things around him in the world and in other human beings, he would lose ability to see them when he has become rich. So, to enjoy similar exquisite things, he has to pay big money to buy costly work of art, a leisure home built at a place of scenic beauty, or association with talented people.
It is also why still people can learn a great deal of human wisdom, foolishness, truth, evil, tragedies, happiness, and so on by reading the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Some pious people might today even believe there is another live universe in the Book as some old Chinese thought that there could be another live world in a vase.
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Rev 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Rev 3:4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
Rev 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.