Hope is like a road in the country
Hope is like a road in the country; there never was a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence...
The tree of life is one's inner axis that grows from the depths of the earth and reaches to the heavens. It connects together the primal opposites of the temporal and the eternal. It is life lived from the "still center of the turning world" and it embraces the deepest human mystery: that we are eternal beings living in a world of time.