The Tree

defeat	self-realization
apathy alienation emptiness alcoholism drug addiction crime dependency interpersonal conflicts	joy health creativity fulfillment acceptance contentment self motivation purposefulness
fear guilt hostility self-pity mistrust jealousy insecurity resentment	love trust charity warmth kindness gratitude friendship forgiveness

Adapted from: Tree of Self-Realization and Tree of Self-Defeat by John Argeropoulos as described in A Simple Path by Lucinda Vardey.

"Those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong ... do not apprehend the great principles of the universe,
nor the nature of creation."
Chuang Tzu, The Tree of Life

"I become bound up in relation to it. The tree is no longer It. I have been seized by the power of exclusiveness. Nothing is lost. The tree is no impression, no play of my imagination, no value depending on my mood, but it is bodied over against me and has to do with me, as I with it -- only in a different way."

From Martin Buber, "I and Thou," The Spiritual Naturalist

"Tree", Caesarea, church outside the walls, Israel

defeat

self-realization

apathy alienation emptiness alcoholism drug addiction crime dependency interpersonal conflicts

joy

health

creativity

fulfillment

acceptance

contentment

self motivation

purposefulness

fear

guilt

hostility

self-pity

mistrust

jealousy

insecurity

resentment

love trust charity warmth kindness gratitude friendship forgiveness

apathy
alienation
emptiness
alcoholism
drug addiction
crime dependency
interpersonal conflicts

love
trust
charity
warmth
kindness
gratitude
friendship
forgiveness