4 Purposes of a Tree

Everything in existence has a purpose unique to it for many reasons. Here are 4 ways we can consider a Tree’s purpose. 

1. ‘Trees’ as a species of vegetative souls contribute a defined purpose in the Natural Ecosystem. They exhale oxygen, absorb CO2, regulate the Earth’s climate. 

2. This particular tree also as a unique role it plays in the forest it lives in. How many trees rely on it for company or shared sustenance, how many squirrels for refuge in the winter, or bees in the spring, how many people rely on its fruits?

3. The tree’s third purpose is usually unseen and belongs to the memory of the forrest, this world’s memory as well. This purpose is the unseen ramifications of small acts, easily overlooked as mundane but whose effects are felt profoundly in the life of those affected. The leaf that fell on a lover’s face which marked her beloved’s most cherished memory. Only in retrospect could the lover have thanked ever branch of this tree for its graces.

4. The fourth purpose is solely up to the tree, where it looks and touches with its life force is always up to her.

5 Tips for Constructive Dialogue with a Someone you Disagree with

1. We started out by humanizing one another, asking how or lives are going, familiarizing one another with important events that shaped our outlook on life profoundly. 

2. Set our intentions and foundations for our conversation. Our willingness to have our minds changed if faced with better weighted evidence. +Our Background 

3. Expressed our positions clearly. Took them in openly and with empathy. Asked verifying and explorative questions. 

4. Spoke honestly, cutting through superfluities or conventionalities. Trust in the good faith of the conversation to reach common grounds. 

5. Identified common grounds and our mutual aspirations to reach the common goal of peace, harmonzing our views, and understanding how they fit together to complete the enlarged picture.

Formlessness and Individuation

An individuated person with an integrated authentic personality, set of authoritative values, beliefs, with self-acceptance, self-awareness, honesty, self-esteem, self-respect and self-love spends alot of time building a functional relationship with themselves. Sounds self-centered but in practice, it’s self-effacement that neglects the self that is bound to reemerge corrosively in the world we deceivingly relate to ‘selflessly’. Self-effacement isn’t a path to formlessness, because it treats the nihalation of the self as an implosive and null fact as opposed to a dynamic emergence of the self from a productive (rather than void) no-thingness. Self-effacement only denies our agency in the loving world, our right to consciously choose for ourselves, and often times results in self-seeking relations to others whose love we instrumentalize as means to the end of our feeling loved. Whether they remain rigid or fluid, an individuated person enjoys a more soulful kind of freedom that comes from knowing their essential and personal natures, from living in line with their nature. Contrastingly, a person who remains unindividuated, unaware of their preferences or the character of their volition, also remains amorphous, composed entirely by the sum total of their past and present circumstances, swayed in whichever way with no intentionality, integrity, values, or boundaries to stand by. The unindividuated person revokes their own agency, whether in avoidance of the moral responsibility of the self’s role in co-creating itself along with their circumstances, or as a misguided appeal to a state of undifferentiated unison with the world, with nature, a person, God’s Light, a flawed attempt at ‘riding the wind.’ Even formlessness requires we first know the shapes of our wills, especially since there always remains a will that is aware of its own non-awareness, always being to identify its own non-being.