If you talk to a rose, which is more alive than any stone image, which is more divine than any stone image … If you talk to a tree, which is more deeply rooted in God than any cross because no cross has roots, it is a dead thing—that’s why it kills … A tree is alive, with roots deep into the earth, branches high into the sky, connected with the whole, with the rays of the sun, with the stars—talk to the trees! That can be a contact point with the divine. But if you talk that way people will think you are mad. Spontaneousness is thought to be madness. Formalities are thought to be sanity. Just
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