Quotes About Openness

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples.

Nicht seine Lautstärke mach jemanden zum Fanatiker, sondern vor allem seine Toleranz beziehungsweise sein Mangel an Toleranz gegenüber den Stimmen Andersdenkender.

That's the first step to learning: admitting what you don't know.

She had a way of bringing out genuineness in the least genuine of people.

Accept love when it is offered, Violet. Return love and not suspicion. Then you'll receive more. - Loyalty Tang

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

It is right that you should read according to your temperament, occupations, hobbies, and vocations. But it is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar, unwilling to explore the unfamiliar. In science, we respect the research worker. In literature, we should not always read the books blessed by the majority.

I always have difficulty with people who are not openly warm, expressive. I need a certain sign, a certain invitation.

This openness, which is closed again as soon as we face a partial relationship, the one who understands only one part of us, is the miraculous openess which takes place in whole love.

I do not hold on now. I live openly, ready for the pain, the separations and losses. I am not holding on. Open and free, sad at moments, but knowing the deep joys are worth all that follows. Deep joys. One must be willing to suffer, to surrender.

I am in a fever of ruthless honesty. Anaïs

Don't hesitate to betray your ignorance. It's no crime.

It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

is a difference between being open to constructive criticism and letting jealous strangers say cruel things to you that make you feel bad about yourself. As

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Que chaque attente, en toi, ne soit même pas un désir, mais simplement une disposition à l'accueil. Attends tout ce qui vient à toi, mais ne désire que ce qui vient à toi. Ne désire que ce que tu as.

Partons! et ne nous arrêtons que n'importe où!...

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The life she'd led, each of the places she'd called home sending unexpected shoots toward the next, had made her open to almost anything.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have. • Emil-Auguste Chartier, Propos sur la religion, 1938