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Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning…look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

Bernie Glassman

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.
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Bears Clothes Offering
Don’t power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.
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Blast Power Things Way Yourself
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.
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Empathy Most Relationship Skill Transformation
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
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
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
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
If we weren’t attached we wouldn’t be overwhelmed. It’s endless. And we just take one step after the next
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Attached Next Step Take
When I spend time with students, they tell me that they’ve read something in a book or heard something from a teacher that they don’t think they’re living up to. And I tell them, “Take care of yourself right now.
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Book Care Living Something Spend Take Teacher Tell
Each of is an arm of Kannon, enabling Kannon to do her work. Like her, we’re also overwhelmed, but when we reallize that the millions of pieces are all operating as one, then there’s no problem.
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Compassion Goal Pieces
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
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
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
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
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

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning…look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

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