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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.

Bernie Glassman

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
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
The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world.
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Enlightenment Practice Purpose
We’re creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.
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Creating Littles Niche
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Business Everyone Government Together
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
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
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
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

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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