The Hoop & the Tree: A Compass for Finding Deeper Relationship with All Life

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Council Oak Books, 2000 - 229 頁
The “tree” is the vertical dimension of aspiration,individual growth,and intellectual and spiritual development. The “hoop” is the circular representation of our relationship with humanity and the earth.

Using examples from Native American and other ancient traditions, Chris Hoffman shows readers how to develop both parts of the whole to help people lead a more contented, complete existence.

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How Is Your Tree?
137
The Hoop and the Tree The Deep Structure of the Whole Self
141
The HoopandTree Process of Development
144
Growing to Wholeness in the Ecological Hoop
148
Two Forms of Intelligence
152
When the Hoop Is Undeveloped
154
When the Tree Is Undeveloped
157
Addiction and Codependence
160

The Social Atom
37
The Wider Hoop
40
The Ecological Atom
44
Building and Maintaining Relationships
51
A Hoop of Many Hoops
54
How Is Your Hoop?
78
The Holy Tree
81
An Ancient Widespread and Potent Image
84
This Tree Grows Within You
86
Comfort from a High Place
88
The TreeandHoop Process of Development
103
A Modern Tree Story
106
Support from a Low Place
108
The Tree Centers the Hoop
134
Working toward PsychoSpiritual Wholeness
163
The Fully Developed Self Is Ecological
169
Go in Beauty
177
Our Current Situation
180
The Deep Structure of the Healthy Society
182
Bringing the Hoop and Tree into the World
189
The Individuals Journey
197
Paths to Wholeness
199
Who Are You Really? Really?
202
Go in Beauty
206
Notes
211
Profound Thanks
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第 108 頁 - For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth boughs like a plant.
第 162 頁 - We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
第 172 頁 - A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
第 103 頁 - Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
第 162 頁 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
第 136 頁 - To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begun.
第 162 頁 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
第 6 頁 - And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
第 152 頁 - Intelligence is the aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally and to deal effectively with his environment.
第 172 頁 - ... Universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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