“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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When you look at trees in the forest, you accept them as they are, whether they are straight, bent, or different types. You understand why they grew that way and don't judge them. But with people, we often judge them or ourselves. The idea is to try to see people like trees and accept them as they are.
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