Like the seed of a tree planted in the ground. And then we... we grow... we grow... and at first we are a trunk...”
Absolutely nothing. “But then the tree – the tree that is our life – develops branches.
And think of all those branches, departing from the trunk at different heights.
And think of all those branches, branching off again, heading in often opposing directions.
Think of those branches becoming other branches, and those becoming twigs.
And think of the end of each of those twigs, all in different places, having started from the same one.
A life is like that, but on a bigger scale. New branches are formed every second of every day.
And from our perspective – from everyone’s perspective – it feels like a... like a continuum.
Each twig has travelled only one journey. But there are still other twigs.
And there are also other todays. Other lives that would have been different if you’d taken different directions earlier in your life.
This is a tree of life. Lots of religions and mythologies have talked about the tree of life.
It’s there in Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity. Lots of philosophers and writers have talked about tree metaphors too.
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