Pace e Bene – 12 July 2023

“When you go out into the woods, 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 don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. The minute you get near humans, though, you lose all that. 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