Random Analogies

An Analogy Is Like A Tree….

a: An analogy ~
b: a Tree

What: 'For years, I've been trying to express how everything ties into everything else. A big part of understanding any given thing is relating that thing to other things like it. So, a big part of learning is analogy."

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Writer: Jen McCown
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Date: Oct 2 2011 8:35 PM


Crawling Icy Spider

a: Fear ~
b: spiders with legs of ice on your skin

What: "As my mother stared at me in her unseeing hypnosis of fear, the significance crept over me, like spiders with legs of ice."

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Writer: Loren C. Steffy
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Date: Dec 19 2012 9:09 PM



a: cortisol ~
b: letting termites loose in a wooden house

What:

"When it comes to your muscles, stress and in turn excess cortisol, is like letting termites loose in a wooden house. That's why someone on corticosteroids, such as prednisone, will experience muscle wasting."


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Writer: Natasha Turner, ND
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Date: Feb 12 2014 3:34 PM



a: Earth's surface ~
b: back of a spotted fawn

What:

"The Elders of the Native American Hopi nation say that the Earth's surface is like the back of a spotted fawn.
As the fawn grows, the spots move and change number. Similarly, every time the Earth Mother sings a new song or enters a new vibrational shift, Her power centers also change to a new configuration, interconnected by a more complex sacred geometry."


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Writer: Joseph Robert Jochmans
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Date: Jan 16 2015 9:35 AM



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