Michelle of Carmel Valley, CA
I cannot wait to come see your tree! I want to do a similar piece of art on our pepper tree. Perhaps a movement could start…magic trees equal peace!!! Who could possibly bear any ill will during and after experiencing this magic tree? Thank you for bring beauty to the world. You rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Peace
I enjoy your enthusiasm for the Magic Tree. Is it just from seeing the pictures and reading the website? How did you hear about it? Magic Trees for peace sounds great! Let’s always keep in mind that peace is an inside job and that it begins with us in our own little microcosmic worlds of relationships and spreads from there. Magic Trees help people to tap what, in many, lays hidden deep down; their inner beauty that is the evidence of the unseen divine love that brings peace when we work with gratitude within ourselves and within our interpersonal relationships for equilibrium and synthesis. Those relationships extend across the globe from those we share with family, friends and “enemies” to those we have with and through our communities, governments and cultures. Let the Magic Trees stand for that attitude that is no respecter of persons, that puts no one above another, that makes no judgment of worthiness, but draws a circle of inclusion regardless of appearances, for all are of the One Divine. Peace.
It is a radical thing to attempt; to try and see love as the prime motivation behind every action no matter how violent, graphic or gross. Such an attempt in no way condones violence or any action that results in harm. Harmlessness is the ideal expression of love. Life (Love) is complicated, however, by a vast amount of vanity, glamor, or illusion at the emotional level (not to mention the mental level) which confuse the methods by which we seek to express that which we are. Fear enters in as a result of forgetting that love is the root of all things. Please see “Basis” on the Eternal Life – Long Version Page: http://www.magic-tree.org/?page_id=249
Fear or hate, which produces aggressive means and disregard for life, appears to be the opposite of love yet it is love (desire for our well-being) non-the-less that brings fear about when we believe the illusion of separateness and competition that the material world inevitably produces. Understanding this, for the willing, allows a circle of compassion to be drawn around even the terrorist. Though we abhor his or her methods we are able to see with clear eyes the pain brought on by the massive envelopment of illusion that impinges upon us all through the material and emotional realms of experience – unless, of course, we too have succumbed to the illusion (or have not yet awakened from it, for all have succumbed) so that our vision is filled with log walls against compassion.
Love’s in Everything, Will