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If we weren’t attached we wouldn’t be overwhelmed. It’s endless. And we just take one step after the next

Bernie Glassman

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
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
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.
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Children Lying Teacher
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
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
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
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
You can’t do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls.
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Falls Small Steam Strokes
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
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
Look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
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Laughing Looks Mirror
Our work may be important, but we don’t take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.
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Important Life May Rest
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
When you care about perfection, you care about an expectation. But there is also caring for where I am right now, for what’s happening right now.
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Book Caring Teacher
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

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