Quotes About Openness

Your ability to blank slate is directly related to your ability to rid yourself of expectations and assumptions, two very bad words in my system of negotiation.

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.

Embracing experiences as opportunities allows us to bring fresh perspectives to the party. And that can be incredibly empowering.

Practice humility. Shine a light on others, give teammates the credit, volunteer to help, take accountability, seek out feedback, ask others for their opinion, truly listen to people and be open to having your mind changed.

Not everyone can be relaxed or comfortable enough to seriously listen to the (debate or interview) answers.

3. Suggestibility

The web eliminates all hiding places.

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

Pelo menos as cabeças deviam ser abertas, deviam ser libertas, para que vissem a verdade delas e não a verdade de quem as dominava.

You don't know which way a thing will come at you, but you need to welcome it with your whole heart which ever way it arrives.

New places always help us look at life differently

Let me be open to all possibilities, living the full circle of my life in gratitude no matter when that circle is complete.

May there be peace on earth, may the hearts of all beings be open, may all be reborn in forgiveness, may all creation reflect the Glory of God.

The tendency to judge people in an either/or way—enlightened or not, saint or sinner—makes it difficult to learn from the people we meet, whether or not we consider them "teachers." If we broaden our point of view to consider every person a potential teacher, every encounter will prompt the question "What can I learn from this person?

May you be at peace, May your heart remain open, May you awaken to the light of your own true nature, May you be healed, May you be a source of healing for all beings.

When the heart is open, good humor flows and the ego's rigidity melts like snow in the sun.

Risk, the willingness to accept an unknown future with open hands and happy heart, is the key to the adventures of the soul.

The message to the stranger is clear: come right in and disturb our perfect lives. You are the Christ for us today.

These questions do not call for the discovery of data; they call for the contemplation of possibility.

Risk, the willingness to accept an unknown future with open hands and happy heart, is the key to adventures of the soul. Risk stretches us to discover the rest of ourselves - our creativity, our self-sufficiency, our courage. Without risk we live in a small world of small dreams and lost possibilities.

Anna turned away abruptly. "You needn't bother," she said. But the girl held her back. "No, don't go! Don't be such a goose. I want to know you! Don't you want to know me?

In the end, I learned that the practice of Not-Knowing is the very ground of altruism, because it opens us up to a much wider horizon than our preconceptions could ever afford us and can let in connection and tenderness.