Amazing trees are a pattern for our growth personally and in our organizations and communities. They effortlessly demonstrate that growth is a natural part of the world around us and the wisdom of realizing our existence is equal parts life and death. Pruning and a little death are necessary for health and growth.

Connect with the Larger Self through contemplative and meditative practices. The goal of connecting with the Larger Self is to be more in touch with ourselves, others and a larger meaning. We hope you will join us in this process of discovery. As we examine our own inner selves, we will discover how connected we are with one another and the world around us.

More about the "small self" (or ego) and how we can take a proper stance toward it to shed layers and become our fullest selves, connecting with the "large self," where we find connection and wholeness.

We all search for context to help us find meaning in our circumstances. The largest context that exists is consciousness itself. We are all a part of it and it is that from which we came. If we go back and connect with this largest context which we can call "being-ness," then we can have a better understanding of our existence. And we can focus on "just being" in the being-ness. This helps us diminish the role of our ego (aka "small self"), having less thoughts of ourselves and achieving a simpler existence focused on a larger meaning.