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.
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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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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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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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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You can’t do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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