When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these
different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are
straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are
whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is
the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light,
and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You
just allow it. You appreciate the tree.
The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are
constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment
mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means
appreciating them just the way they are.
- Ram Dass
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