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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.

Bernie Glassman

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.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Fear Needs Order Ourselves
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
Don’t power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.
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Blast Power Things Way Yourself
I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I’m taking things too seriously, or the person I’m talking to is taking them too seriously, I put the nose on. It doesn’t matter what we’re doing or talking about, it doesn’t matter if we agree or disagree, the nose changes everything.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Looks Pockets Talking
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
Don’t make a whole to-do about it. Don’t get down on yourself be- cause you’re not an expert rower; don’t start reading too many books in order to do it right.
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Book Order Reading
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.
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Moving People Waiting
The reason we get overwhelmed is that we’re attached to a certain result or taht we want to achieve a certain result or that we to achieve a certain goal.
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Achieve Attached Certain Overwhelmed Result
You can’t do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Falls Small Steam Strokes
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
Most important, once we study NVC we can’t ignore the potential for transformation that lies in any difficult relationship – if we only bother to communicate with skill and empathy.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Empathy Most Relationship Skill Transformation
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.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Attachment Compassion Experience Yourself
We’re creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.
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Creating Littles Niche
When we go… to bear witness to life on the streets, we’re offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Bears Clothes Offering
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
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

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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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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