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One possible reason a leaf is named as such is because leaf is leif is life.A leaf is named after life because both are a form of unfolding.
Belief can be likened to being a leaf. Be-lief, Be a leaf.
Belief is unfolding thoughts that remain connected to the source of all thoughts, the tree of life, thus knowledge of good and evil.
Belief is a thought about information, a thought that grows, develops, interacts, experiences the elements, falls off, nourishes the soil, combines with others in the mix, grows again.
The leaf only develops and unfolds as the result of being connected to the branch connected to the stem, connected to the roots, connected to the natural world. Then comes budding, blossoming, fruiting, seeding.
Belief, in this manner of being a leaf, brings relief, which is re-life which is being born again and again by unfolding again and again into more knowledge of self and all else.
First Leaf Out Fundamentally
Belief in your natural born ability to be the leaf you are. You are spirit, soul, elements, atoms, primordials, genetic material, the same as the universe, universal, versatile, able to become simultaneously multiple things. This is who you are before you take on other identities, some optimal, most suboptimal identifiers of self. Belief in your ability to know who you are, why you are here and where you came from. Unfold into the understandings that reveal all of your essences - - each essence is a leaf and a belief, not just your belief but the Creator's belief in being a leaf passed on into every creation in the tree of life.This should help us better understand what it means to turn over a new leaf and why humans use that metaphor.