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screenshot from "The Fountain"new film by Darren Aronofsky

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Wishing Tree by Chris Cundy

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The tree when it grows, it grows upwards. But when it is laden with fruit, it comes down. First it is attractive by its flowers, by its timber, by the other parts of its body and people try to destroy it for that. But when the fruits appear, they want to preserve it and the tree bends down with humility. It is very valuable. … One has to know to bend down towards Mother Earth, to be humble

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„Die Bäume scheinen unter allen Pflanzen die edelsten, weil ihre unzähligen Individuen so sehr mittelbar nur noch an der Erde hängen und gleichsam schon Pflanzen auf Pflanzen sind. Die Sinne (sind) an den Tieren, was Blätter und Blüten and den Pflanzen sind. Die Blüten sind Allegorien des Bewußtseins, oder des Kopfs. Eine höhere Fortpflanzung ist der Zweck dieser höheren Blüte - eine höhere

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As a plant produces its flower,so the psyche creates its symbols.Carl G. Jung

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A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.Ralph W. Emerson, 1803 - 1882

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used the image of a tree to describe his understanding of the artist as a medium for the transformative process of nature. He observed that: “From the roots the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him and his eyes. He is the trunk of the tree, seized and moved by the force of the current, he directs his vision into his work."Paul Klee “Modern Art” 1924

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" You just become, like a flower becomes the fruit. It's all built in within you. Allow it to work out." Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi.

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Do not go into the garden of flowersO friend, go not there.In your body is the garden of flowers.Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotusand there gaze upon the infinite beauty.There is a strange tree,which stands without roots,bears fruits without blossoming.It has no branches and no leaves.It is Lotus all over.Two birds sing there:One is the Guru and the other the disciple.The

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In our gardens, Lord Ganesha sends His power through fruits and vegetables, the ones that grow above the ground, to permeate our nerve system with wisdom, clearing obstacles in our path when eaten. The growers of them treat it like they would care for Ganesha in His physical form.Hindu Deva Shastra, verse 438, Nature Devas

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Of the tree of Samsara ignorance is the seed, the identification with the body is its sprout, attachment its tender leaves, work its water, the body its trunk, the vital forces its branches, the organs its twigs, the sense-objects its flowers, various miseries due to diverse works are its fruits, and the individual soul is the bird on it.This bondage of the non-Self springs from ignorance, is

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Samsara is like a fig tree but with its roots above in the heavens.The continuous and practically endless chain of birth, craving (kama) for sensual pleasures in this world and in the other worlds, activities (karma) to achieve these pleasures and objects of pleasure, the merit (punya) and the demerits (papa) resulting from such activities and rebirth is due to avidya or ignorance and is referred

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A monk asked Joshu, "What is the meaning of Bodidharma's coming to China?" Joshu said, "The oak tree in the garden."A monk asked Zhaozhou, "What is the living meaning of Zen?." Zhaozhou said, "The cypress tree in the yard."Case 37 from the Mumonkan (Wumenguan), A Traditional Collection of Zen Koan'Joshu, Chao-chou, Zhaozhou' are different spellings of the name of a Chinese Chan (Zen)

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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.William Blake, Proverbs of Hell, 1790

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And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kindsof trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, butthey will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for themflows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and theirleaves for healing.Old Testament, Ezekiel 47:12

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According to legend the tree of life has its roots in heaven. It is there that the Creator resides and hence from there the roots originate. The torah is likened to the tree of life as are the ten sephirot. " In Paradise stands the tree of life and the tree of knowledge, the later forming a hedge around the former. Only he who have cleared a path for himself though the tree of knowledge can come

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"A breath which comes from this world shakes the branches of the Tree of Life which spreads the fragrance of the future world in this world and brings the holy souls alive. These souls come up waking each other... and the Tree of Life rejoices." The Zohar III

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In the religion of the Medes and Persians the cult of trees plays an important part, and with them, as with Assyrians, the symbol of eternal life was a tree with a stream at its roots. Another object of veneration was the sacred miracle tree, whichwithin itself contained the seeds of all.M. L. Gothein, A History of Garden Art, 1928

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That each day I may walk unceasingly on the banks of my water, that my soul may repose on the branches of the trees which I planted, that I may refresh myself under the shadow of my sycomore.Egyptian tomb inscription, circa 1400 BCE

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Dies Universum ist ein Baum -der Mensch ist seine Frucht.Die Frucht ist ja der wahre Zweck - denk’ nicht mehr an den Baum Alif: Allah ist wie der Jasminzweig, den der Meister mir ins Herz gepflanzt hat. - o Hu! (...)Er verbreitet inneren Duft, als er dem Blühen nahekam - o Hu!Möge der tüchtige Meister lange leben. - sagte Bahu - , der diese Pflanze gepflanzt hat. - o Hu!Schimmel, Annemarie:

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Ich will dich, Herr, lobpreisen!Denn du hast mich bestelltZum Ursprung vieler Bäche Im trockenen LandUnd hast mich zur Quelle in der Wüste gemachtUnd zum Wasserspender eines Gartens.Du hast Wacholder, Buchsbaum und Zedern zusammen gepflanztzu deiner Herrlichkeit.Und an verborgener Quelle sind Lebensbäume verstecktinmitten der anderen Bäume am Wasser.Und ihre Aufgabe ist, Sprosse zu treiben,damit

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One of the most important messages of Christ's life was not his death, but his resurrection and promise of a life eternal. The cross becoming a tree of life - emphasising this life-affirming message.

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What is hidden from you will be disclosed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there.The Gospel of St. Thomas

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"...the two most widespread world images in the archaic imagination were the mother goddess and the "world tree."Mark Dalton, The Recurring World Tree in European Paganismhttp://www.widdershins.org/vol9iss1/04.htm

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Tree of Life Quilt - watercolor © Helen KlebesadelMany organisations concerned with holistic health, ecology and women's organisations use the tree of life in their logo.The cover illustration for the home page of www.matrifocus.com for example uses an image representing a tree of life quilt, referring to the ancient motive of folk handicraft and its tradition.www.matrifocus.com is a seasonal

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The original Shaker design of the Tree of Life was created by artist Hannah Cahoon in 1854. The Tree of Life was first seen by the artist in a vision she described as "a draft of a beautiful tree pencil'd on a large sheet of white paper ... I have since learned that this tree grows in the Spirit Land... I entreated Mother Ann to tell me the name of this tree: which she did by moving the hand of a

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Életfa," which means "Tree of Life," is an archaic Hungarian folk art symbol. It consists of a tree trunk adorned by branches and flowers, reaching towards the heavens, representing the hope for eternal life. This symbol is used as an ornament at major occasions such as weddings, christenings and funerals. In this way, the symbolic tree witnesses the passing of generations, linking together all

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The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the 'ganz andere' or 'wholly other.'Mircea Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries

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Among archetypal images, the Sacred Tree is one of the most widely known symbols on Earth. There are few cultures in which the Sacred Tree does not figure: as an image of the cosmos, as a dwelling place of gods or spirits, as a medium of prophecy and knowledge, and as an agent of metamorphoses when the tree is transformed into human or divine form or when it bears a divine or human image as its

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Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and roundabout beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stoodthere I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; forI was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit,and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.An I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of

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"... I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again ... I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be one."Statement by Chief Crazy Horse, smoking the holy pipe for the last time

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Bless me with your gentle rain.Hold me in your branches.Blossoms filled with scent,Promises of sharing.Petroglyph from Green River, Utah

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Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song

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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

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Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprigsang under my tongue, its drifting fragranceclimbed up through my conscious mindas if suddenly the roots I had left behindcried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood -and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.

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God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!"

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The "Tree of Life" window from the Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, ca. 1905, was fabricated by the Linden Glass Co. This pairing of art glass panels, designed for different areas of the Martin house, shows how Wright redefined the boundary between interior and exterior space and explores his revolutionary use of color and light in architecture.

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When it comes to energy transport systems, everthing is a tree.Geoffrey West

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"Shows a methods invocation tree for thread selected in Threads View starting from leaves."from "Eclipse Profiler Plugin": http://eclipsecolorer.sourceforge.net/index_profiler.htmlInformation may be organized in the shape of a tree.

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