Quotes About Openness

Part of universal hospitality is in the practice of befriending other religious traditions and practices, while remaining deeply grounded. Brent Bill thinks Christians need to engage in "theological hospitality," that we "should be open and welcoming…instead of starting with the theological differences that divide us.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you are still alone.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

one should never assume anything

Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.

There's something physical that changes with a person's appearance when they suddenly open up to you.

Rose doesn't like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

Forgetting oneself is opening oneself

Truth. .. it might make you sad. But somewhere deep inside of you, you know that it is truth. If you can but open yourself up, you know when things are true and when that they are not. For this is available to you.

There are no limitations, unless you create them yourselves. Anything is possible. You are only limited by your own imagination.

Yes, I know Marcus Aurelius or Vauvenargues or Chesterton has already said this, and far better; but let's face it — you weren't listening then either.

the longest way round is the shortest way home." Our truest fulfillment does not lie in the direction of a jealously guarded self but in the direction of self-transcendence as we learn to open to others and to reality.

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

Zen master Shunryu Suzuki writes, "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."8

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...

Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open.

The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you're going to be.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.