“Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason the woods were the place where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings…The tree brings back all that has been lost through Christ’s extreme spiritualization, namely the elements of nature. Through its branches and leaves the tree gathers the powers of light and air, and through its roots those of the earth and the water… You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. Why not go into the forest for a time, literally? Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books… ”
-Carl Jung
“Only when I walked into the forest did the world become whole again.”
-Lars Muhl
Tag Archives: Roots
Roots
“Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots.”
-Rumi
“…The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
“I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”
-Virginia Woolf
Riotous Roots
“And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter.
It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.”
-Rumi
The peace and quiet that is winter, allows the deeper recesses of ourselves to be wholly alive, riotous even!
Exploring the inner spaces is never ending…