A Dwelling Place for Tree and Soul Lovers
RootBleibe
Our roots connect us to nature’s devotional heart and soul. Nature sustains and nurtures all life on earth from the inside out. When you feel rooted, nature can sustain and nurture your inner and outer environments through you.
Rooted, you are a Dwelling Place (Bleibe) for your many “selves” and others.
Please answer Rumi’s call and “Come To The Root of The Root Of Your Self.”
The Root of the Root of Your Self
Don’t go away, come near Don’t be faithless, be faithful. Find the antidote in the venom. Come to the root of the root of your self. Molded of clay, yet kneaded from the substance of certainty, a guard at the Treasury of Holy Light— come, return to the root of the root of your self. Once you get hold of selflessness, you’ll be dragged from your ego and freed from many traps. Come, return to the root of the root of your self. You are born from the children of God’s creation, but you have fixed your sight too low. How can you be happy? Come, return to the root of the root of your self. … You were born from a ray of God’s majesty and have the blessings of a good star. Why suffer at the hands of things that don’t exist? Come, return to the root of the root of your self. You are a ruby embedded in granite. How long will you pretend it isn’t true? We can see it in your eyes. Come to the root of the root of your self. …