The vine . . . is not the root merely, but all

 

The vine . . . is not the root merely, but all - root, stem, branches, twigs, leaves, flowers, fruit: and Jesus is not only that: He is soil and sunshine, air and showers, and ten thousand times more than we ever dreamed, wished for, or needed.
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(J. Hudson Taylor. Dwelling in Him. Robesonia: Overseas Missionary Fellowship.)

 

James Hudson Taylor

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And I
        in terror
                        but not in doubt of
                                                            what I must do
in anguish, in haste,
                        wrenched from the earth root after root,
the soil heaving and cracking, the moss tearing asunder —
and behind me the others: my brothers
forgotten since dawn. In the forest
they too had heard,
and were pulling their roots in pain
out of a thousand years' layers of dead leaves,
                rolling the rocks away,
                                            breaking themselves
                                                                out of
                                                                        their depths.

 

Denise Levertov

 

Though leaves are many, the root is one;
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.

 

William Butler Yeats

 

Try to solve the issues from their root. Leaves and branches are not as necessary and important.

 

Elia M. Ramollah

 

What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds "body feel" and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.

 

Bruce Lee

 

Now the sower went out, took a handful (of seeds), and scattered them. Some fell on the road; the birds came and gathered them up. Others fell on the rock, did not take root in the soil, and did not produce ears. And others fell on thorns; they choked the seed and worms ate them. And others fell on the good soil and produced good fruit: it bore sixty per measure and a hundred and twenty per measure. (9)

 

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