EMANATION

The relative world may be thought of as being on the surface of a sphere, in the words of Eckhart Tolle, the spiritual teacher.  The sphere represents the one Life.  All life in the relative world is an expression of this one Life. 
 
The relative world is not created by the one Life, however; the one Life is not like a Creator God.  The relative world emanates, to use Vedanta’s preferred word, from the one Life.  Emanate means to issue or spread out from (a source).   

An analogy would be an apple tree.  The tree does not create its apples.  The apples issue from it.  In this way, the tree and the apples are the same thing, an apple tree.