The phrase generally draws its meaning from Timothy Morton’s ecological concept of “The Mesh,” which describes the infinite, interconnected network of all living and non-living things.

“They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.” — Khalil Gibron

“To me there is nothing more soothing than the song of mosquito that can’t get through the mesh to bite you.” — Madison Smartt Bell

“He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage.” — Swami Vivekananda

I have come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people’s perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want,  ...