Our planet abounds with trees, from coniferous trees that maintain green needles throughout the year to deciduous trees that drop their leaves every fall and remain bare until spring when new buds emerge.
Some are tall and majestic like the broad California Sequoia, while others remain small, such as the ornamental Blue Chinese Wisteria.
Just as there are trees of many colors and varieties, trees can have many symbolic meanings, from strength, individuality, and expression to calmness, growth, and the interconnectedness of everything. Even the Tree of Life has different meanings for different people. First appearing in Mesopotamia, it was adopted by numerous cultures. For the Hebrews, the Tree of Life imparts God's own life and to be near it and eat of it means to be near God and ingest his own life power and presence. From the Christian perspective, trees have their own divinely established tasks; keeping humans alive, giving them a place to live and provide food to sustain them. The Tree of 
Life is placed in the center of the sacred space, meaning the life it offers is not inherent to the tree, but a divine gift given through the tree.
The tree in Quran is used as an example for a concept, idea, way of life or code of life while in Buddhist culture, the tree of life is symbolic of enlightenment and existence while Hindus view it as a symbol of fertility, prosperity and eternal life. The Celts viewed the tree of life as a connection between heaven and earth, mind and body, the physical and the spiritual, representing the incessant cycle of life and the gift of rebirth and often believed trees were their ancestors and gatekeepers to the otherworld. Among the Greeks, it is the source of life, a force connecting all life and is often protected by supernatural guardians. Chinese carvings of the tree of life generally depict a phoenix and a dragon, the symbols for rebirth and immortality!
And I thought just looking up into the branches of a tree made me dizzy!
In each of these traditions, there is a basic foundation of connectedness of all things. Each part of the tree can represent a different aspect of the interconnectedness of life; the roots symbolizing a connection to the Earth, the trunk representing our connection to the physical world, and the branches associated with connection to the divine and all things heavenly. Just wearing the tree of life is believed to help improve courage and inner strength. Whether you are searching for wisdom and knowledge, or a connection with the divine, the tree of life is a powerful symbol.
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