Bernie Glassman Quotes

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

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.

The more you learn, the more you know that you're not so hot.

We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

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Bearing witness is not something to be done only at Auschwitz. When we bear witness to the unfolding of our daily lives, not shrinking from any situation that arises, we learn. We open to what is. And in that process, a healing arises.

In honoring our diversity, we discovered our oneness. By accepting our differences, we came together as one people.

The thing we have in common is our diversity.

We yearn to find things that are common to all human beings, around which we can come together. But underlying that yearning is the desire for people to be the same, to be the same as us, to affirm our way of seeing things. And that’s the trap.