“Remember the tree branches” the wise old man said to me, taking my hand as he walked by, somberly pointing up to the canopy of multicolored leaves that hung over our heads. As he disappeared into the sunset and the sound of his steps dissipated into the pale afternoon light, the meaning of his words came to me.

Actions and branches, created from will; ripples into the energetic fields of the universe. In happy will, an outcome appears, a branch on the opposite side with a leaf or a flower. On the other side, the actions/branches continue to grow, one out of the other, out of the other, becoming a beautiful or ugly consequence, dependent on the nature of will, the nature of the living being.

Powerful thoughts and actions are sealed in the books of our lives, exemplified in the tree of life. To think and act in love alone – these are the branches bearing the natural reactions of flowers and fruit, the fragrance of all sweet things in the air & on earth.

~~N.S.