A World Full of Tree People

“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 to this, or I’m to 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

In a world where it seems that people are ever more ready to lose patience and go at anyone who disagrees with them, the idea behind this quote from Ram Dass is more applicable than ever.

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