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I honor businesses for what they do, I honor nonprofits for what they do, I honor government for what it does, and then I invite everyone to the table so that together we can come up with innovative and broad-based solutions that can serve as many people as possible.

Bernie Glassman

When we bear witness, when we become the situation – homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death – the right action arises by itself. We don’t have to worry about what to do.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Buddhist Death Inspirational
Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation.
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Fall Rocks Wind
Even if you’re only rowing down a stream, different things happen: maybe the wind changes, maybe the current, and suddenly everything’s different. So gently is really important.
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Change Everything Maybe Wide
Don’t power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Blast Power Things Way Yourself
I always tell people that if you get upset over what someone says, imagine him or her with a clown’s nose on and you won’t get so angry.
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Nose People Upset
When we don’t ask, we don’t let others give. When we fear rejection, we don’t let generosity arise.
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Generosity Giving Rejection
Befriend what’s happening, not just who you’re supposed to be or what the world should be like. This is where you are now. So how do you care for yourself this minute?
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Befriend Care Minute Supposed
Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.
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Fear Needs Order Ourselves
In that state you’ve immediately raised the mind of compassion, because if nothing is in, everything is in, and you are now free to experience yourself as the world.
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Compassion Experience Immediately Mind World
People get stuck a lot because they’re afraid to act; in the worst case,…we get so attached to some end result that we can’t function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn’t wait.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Moving People Waiting
The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to each other and even to ourselves. It is precise, disciplined, and enormously compassionate.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Children Lying Teacher
When we go… to bear witness to life on the streets, we’re offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.
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Bears Clothes Offering
In every area, working with what you habitually reject is one of the best ways to facilitate growth and transformation.
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Growth Transformation Way
It’s very rare to be in a state where there’s nothing in, where you have no attachment to any idea or concept about yourself.
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Attachment Compassion Experience Yourself
The basic problem, actually, is how to get rid of the idea that we’re going to get rid of our problems. Only then can we relate directly with the real issues of our life.
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Ideas Issues Problem Real Relate
The fewer or less diverse voices you invite to the table, the smaller and narrower your solution will be and the fewer people it will serve.
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Fewer Less Narrower People Serve The Solution

I honor businesses for what they do, I honor nonprofits for what they do, I honor government for what it does, and then I invite everyone to the table so that together we can come up with innovative and broad-based solutions that can serve as many people as possible.

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I honor businesses for what they do, I honor nonprofits for what they do, I honor government for what it does, and then I invite everyone to the table so that together we can come up with innovative and broad-based solutions that can serve as many people as possible.

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