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.
BERNIE GLASSMANThe 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.
More Bernie Glassman Quotes
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Don’t power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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Look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
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In every area, working with what you habitually reject is one of the best ways to facilitate growth and transformation.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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