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Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation.

Bernie Glassman

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.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Book Care Living Something Spend Take Teacher Tell
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 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
Look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
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Laughing Looks Mirror
We’re creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.
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Creating Littles Niche
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
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 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
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

Nose People Upset
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
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
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
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 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.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Book Caring Teacher
Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Fall Rocks Wind
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

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