The past couple years I have really been focused on letting go of my ego. Ego is such a difficult thing to release. It is the cause of almost all negative situations. Whenever I feel like I am struggling with judgment or ego I revert back to this truth, said by the beautiful intellectual Ram Dass:
"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.
What do you turn to when you feel like you need to raise your vibrations a couple notches?
P.S. Can you tell I am completely plant obsessed?