Quotes About Rootedness

el árbol, donde arraiga, allí se queda. Le cortan los brazos; le hieren el tronco; llora por la herida su savia, que es su sangre... pero no se arranca a si mismo, porque no puede; no anda, porque lo suejta la tierra con su dulce pesadumbre...

Just as it takes a tree a long time to begin to grow again once it's transplanted, so you can give your healthy roots time to find the nourishment of your new soil in your new community.

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree — deeply rooted to withstand all of life's upheavals.

To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.

To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life

Spotted Fawn left a legacy as well. She taught me, and many others, that it's not enough to plan and execute a project intellectually. If a project is to grow and prosper, it needs to be rooted in the spirit, in the body, in the community, as well as in the mind. And in her final months of life, Spotted Fawn bore her adversity with dignity and good humor. She was neither a whiner nor a complainer.

Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.

Be rooted in the word of God.

Without grounding, we are unstable; we lose our center, fly off the handle, get swept off our feet, or daydream in a fantasy world.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Only the people who are rooted in the house of God will thrive, prosper, become rich and still have joy in every situation

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

We are rooted to the air through our lungs and to the soil through our stomachs. We are walking trees and floating plants.

I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place.

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.

You lose something in not being rooted, but you gain something by seeing the world differently. It's both a loss and a gift.

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.

How tall is your sunflower? That's what most people seem to care about. How big a brand, how much market share, how many online followers. Too many marketers spend most of their time running a hype show, trying to get just a little bigger. The thing is, tall sunflowers have deep and complex root systems. Without them, they'd never get very high.

I grew up with the English language but not with the culture behind it. I was always outside that and deeply rooted in my own. I

Always watch your base: Be attentive to the portion nearest the ground. Correct first form the root.

I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness.