current to the light

 

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Paradise is having a connection — roots in the garden, stem from the branch, current to the light. 

To be unaware of the connection is to have one’s heart in the wrong place — far out in the fruit instead of within, in the tree.


—Alan Watts

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the branch might seem like the fruit’s origin: 

in fact, the branch exists because of the fruit 

—Rumi

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