Sounds a bit like Daytop's chant, eh? Note also the metaphor of a growing plant/tree: "In this ground, I can take root and grow." The Seed also used a growing tree for their logo, see
HERE for a pic of an old advertisement (1974); click on the picture to enlarge it. Looks a bit like Elan's tree perhaps?
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Daytop PhilosophyI am here because there is no refuge.
Finally, from myself.
Until I confront myself in the eyes
and hearts of others, I am running.
Until I suffer them to share my secrets,
I have no safety from them.
Afraid to be known, I can know
neither myself nor any other, I will be alone.
Where else but in our common ground,
can I find such a mirror?
Here, together, I can at last appear
clearly to myself not as the giant
of my dreams nor the dwarf of my fears,
but as a person, part of a whole,
with my share in its purpose.
In this ground, I can take root and grow,
Not alone anymore as in death,
But alive to myself and to others.