##### 🔑 All Parts are welcome exactly as 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 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 [[🔑 Presence has no agenda]]. [[💡 Parts|Parts]] do not ever have to feel, behave, or be any way other than the way they are. They don’t have to do anything they don’t want to do, go anywhere they don’t want to go. They don’t have to [[🕯️ Unblending|unblend]], or speak, or even reveal themselves if they don’t want to. They don't have to be healed or feel better if they aren't ready to. All parts are welcome — *exactly* the way they are. ###### See Also - [[F4 — Feel Toward]] - [[🛡️ Presence-ing]] [^1]: