If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled.

If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren�t led by the senses, your heart will find peace. Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

Lao Tzu

If you find it necessary to judge me by my past..

If you find it necessary to judge me by my past, don't be surprised when I find it necessary to put you there.

Accepting people just the way they are

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 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. And