4:34pm November 4, 2014

“When you go out into the woods & you look at trees, you see all these different trees. & some of them are bent, & some of them are straight, & some of them are evergreens, & some of them are whatever.& you look at the tree and you allow it. You appreciate it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, & so it turned that way. & 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. & you are constantly saying ‘You’re too this, or I’m too this.’ That judging mind comes in. & so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”

Ram Dass (via loveinspireuniversally)

Not normally a Ram Dass fan but that really sums up how I see disability in terms of trees rocks etc.

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