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NTS continued: “That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just they way they are”

NTS, “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 evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the trees 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, and so it turned that way… The minute you get near humans, you lose all that

NTS: Say Jeepers Creepers as much as possible, daily if possible

Loving these quotes, “For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.” Cynthia Occelli

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them” - Maya Angelou

“Already living life underwater, I grabbed at other people’s legs as they swam by and tried to pull them down with me”