St Catherine's Tree

As a kid i was familiar with (St) Catherine's wheel (light up the fire with standard fireworks! :) - but Richard Rohr speaks about St Catherine's tree:

St Catherine of Siena pictures the spiritual life are a large tree.
The trunk is love; 

The core or middle part is patience; 

The roots are self-knowledge 

The many branches, reaching our into the air are discernement.

In other words love does not happen without patience, self-knowledge and discernment.

(Possibly) today we have little encouragement toward honest self-knowledge or training in spiritual discernement from our churches. By nature most of us are not very patient. All of which means that love is not given to be very common.

Do we need St Catherine's tree again?

Possibly so.