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. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves. — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I'm taking things too seriously, or the person I'm talking… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
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… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
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. 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… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share
Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation. You can't do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls. Even if you're only rowing down a stream, different things happen: maybe the wind changes, maybe the current, and suddenly everything's… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share
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. The fewer or less diverse voices you invite to the table,… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share
Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
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… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously. — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
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… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
When we don't ask, we don't let others give. When we fear rejection, we don't let generosity arise. — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
