“When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility.” PersonsSoulConsciousnessResponsibilityTreePositionHumilityDutyConsciousResponsibleFruitHumbleAgentsGrassKrishnaDischargeGreat SoulsGreat Responsibility Author:A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
“Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.” KnowsMenWayDoeSelfConsciousnessTreeGreatnessProveMiseryMiserableMonarchs Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees; but three tenses dizzy my consciousness: my present, the time of Jesus, and that of the photographer, all this under the instance of 'reality' - and no longer through the elaborations of the text, whether fictional or poetic, which itself is never credible down to the root.” RealityThreeJesusConsciousnessTreeRootsPhotographerInstancePoeticAugustJerusalemCredibleOlivesDizzyOlive Trees Author:Roland Barthes
“I've studied Kabbalah, as you know, for many years, so there are a lot of things I do that one would associate with practising Judaism. I hear the Torah every Saturday. I observe Shabbat. I say certain prayers. My son was bar mitzvahed. So this appears like I'm Jewish, but these rituals are connected to what I describe as the Tree of Life consciousness and have more to do with the idea of being an Israelite, not Jewish.” KnowsYearsIdeasCertainPrayerConsciousnessTreeSonConnectedBarsMy SonRitualSaturdayAssociatesJudaismTree Of LifeTorahKabbalahBar Mitzvah Author:Madonna Ciccone
“God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.” UniversePassionLove IsConsciousnessTreeFlowerPureFruitSeedsImpulseBranchesSweetness Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses” FoundWaterAnimalConsciousnessAirTreeMassGrassRevolutionary Author:Gary Snyder
“When consciousness has awakened it is not something sensational or spectacular. It's simply a reality as natural as the one of a tree that has growth slowly and developed without starts or sensational stuffs. Nature is Nature.” RealityStuffGrowthNaturalConsciousnessTreeSpectacularAwakenedSensational Author:Samael Aun Weor
“The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.” ThinkingMindDoeBodyConsciousnessTreeDivineInstrumentsMind And BodySensing Author:Adyashanti